▪ I. † sabeline, n. Obs.
Also 3 sablyne, 7 sabelline.
[a. OF. sabeline (12th c. in Godef.), ad. med.L. sabelīna (pellis), sable (fur), f. sabellum sable n.1 Cf. zibeline.]
The fur of the sable.
| a 1200 Moral Ode 364 (Egerton MS.) Ne scal þer beo fou ne grei ne cunig ne ermine ne ocquerne ne martres cheole ne beuer ne sabeline [c 1275 Jesus MS. sablyne]. ? 1700 Cruel Mother in Child Ballads (1882) I. 221/2 We neither wore the silks nor the sabelline. 1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 439 Sable, sabelline, the skin of an animal of the weasel or marten kind. |
▪ II. sabeline
see sabelline a.1