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Cinderella is a fairy story about an abused scullery girl who lives with her wicked step-mother and two ugly step-sisters; who is invited to a royal ball, provided with a temporary enchantment of rich costume and coach and horses by a fairy god mother, while at the ball dances with the prince who falls in love with her, but leaving quickly before the enchantment wears off she leaves behind one of her slippers. The prince then endeavours to locate his love, which he does by having the girls of the neighbourhood try on the slipper until he finds the one girl the slipper fits. In English the slipper is referred to as a glass slipper, but this is a mistake in the story's translation. It should actually be a sable slipper, which were only worn by royalty - hence the fairy god mother gave the heroine of the story a pair of royal slippers to wear.
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Quills are the large wing-feathers of birds. They were long used for making pens, the quills of swans being the best but the quills of geese most commonly used while Crow-quills were used to make fine writing instruments. Quills are still used to make sign writers' brushes, as the flexible quill has less tendency to cut the delicate sable hairs than a metal ferrule. Quills used for signwriting have a wooden handle inserted into the handle end of the quill to add rigidity to the brush.
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A writer is a sable signwriting brush terminating in a chisel edge, as opposed to a pencil which is pointed.
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The Black buck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the sasin or Indian antelope, is an Indian antelope. The adult male stands about 80 centimetres at the shoulder and weighs about 38 kg. Its ringed horns have a moderate spiral twist of three to four turns and are up to 70 centimetres long. The body's upper parts are black; the under parts and a ring around the eyes are white. The light-brown female is usually hornless. Black bucks frequent the open plains in herds. When the rut reaches a peak, one male establishes dominance. After six months the mated females each bear one fawn, which joins the herd with its mother about two weeks later and remains with her for more than a year. The fastest of the Indian antelopes, black bucks have been over hunted and are in danger of becoming extinct. The name black buck has also been applied to the sable antelope of Africa.
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The sable (Martes zibellina) is a carnivorous type of marten, similar to the pine marten but with longer legs and larger ears. The sable has a luxurious, dense, soft, generally brownish black coat with a paler but indistinct throat bib. The colour of the fur varies greatly according to the locality and the season of the year. The sable has long been hunted for its fur, the darkest and most valuable furs being taken in autumn and winter in the colder parts of Siberia, Russia, and Canada. Sable are solitary animals that live in woodlands where they feed on birds, squirrels, and small rodents.
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The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is a large African antelope with long, sabre-like horns and in the male a black coat.
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The Sable Island Pony is a breed of small feral horse from Sable Island, Canada. They are no more than 14 hands high and occur in various dark colours with white markings. They are a hardy breed, short, stocky and with a muscular frame.
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The Small Argent and Sable (Epirrhoe tristata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 20 and 23 mm found in temperate Europe and Asia flying in two generations from April to September.
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The Beretta S689 Gold Sable is an Italian double-barrelled breech-loading hunting rifle with interchangeable shotgun barrel. The Beretta S689 Gold Sable is produced in blued steel with a walnut stock in .30-06 Springfield and 9.3 x 74 calibres and takes a 20 gauge shotgun cartridge with the alternate barrel. The Beretta S689 Gold Sable has a folding sight and a 60 cm barrel.
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Sable is a cultivated variety of potato.
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