Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing a black stole; hence, clothed or robed in black.

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Examples

  • 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

  • The sable-stoled Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark. 220

    On the Morning of Christs Nativity John Milton 1921

  • 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.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipp'd ark.

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

  • 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

  • Comes a surer soothsayer sorrowing, sable-stoled as birds of night.

    Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipped ark:

    England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868

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