Sable antelopeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

probably from its sable black coloring

発音

名詞

sable antelope (plural sable antelopes)

1. A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.

参考

• sable