Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a black stole; hence, clothed or robed in black.
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Examples
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No more in thy purple raiment, Cypris, do thou sleep; arise, thou wretched one, sable-stoled, and beat thy breasts, and say to all, 'He hath perished, the lovely Adonis!'
Elegy's Elegy 2008
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The sable-stoled Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark. 220
On the Morning of Christs Nativity John Milton 1921
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Sometimes I catch him casting a waggish twinkle at me over the very shoulder of my blackest worry, rainbow wings and head that is devil-may-care trying to get at me from behind her sable-stoled form.
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The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipp'd ark.
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No more in thy purple raiment, Cypris, do thou sleep; arise, thou wretched one, sable-stoled, and beat thy breasts, and say to all, 'He hath perished, the lovely Adonis!'
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Comes a surer soothsayer sorrowing, sable-stoled as birds of night.
Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipped ark:
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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