zibeline – French noun declension

French noun forms of zibeline

Noun: zibeline
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fzibeline
Plural fzibelines

Sample Sentences

  • Elle s'arrêta pour laisser passer un cheval noir, piaffant dans les brancards d'un tilbury que conduisait un gentleman en fourrure de zibeline. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]

Etymology

From Middle French zubeline (“sable”), influenced by Italian zibellino, from Old French sabelin (“sable”), from Middle Low German sabel ; ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Doublet of sable. See: Italian Nouns 'zibellino', Polish Nouns 'soból'.

Verbs referencing "zibeline"

Romanian Nouns zibelină.

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