Definition of "sables"

Argent, a fesse between 3 cressauntes Sables. Sables, a sunne Argent.

1899, Thomas Abingdon, A Survey of Worcestershire, page 465

[…] this letter H sables and to the Creast upon the Healme on a wreathe silver & sables a Turtle-dove azure manteled gules doubled silver. Fifthly the Greke Reader the field silver & sables & perty[sic] per cheveron in the first these two Greke letters Α Alpha and Ω Omega sables & in the second a Cicade or Grasshoper silver […] Rob: Cooke alias Clarencieulx Roy D'Armes / The foregoing is taken from Baker's transcript of the original grant (v. Baker's MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, vol. xxvi., p. 27).

1899, The Genealogical Magazine, page 126

The arms of his father, John Smith, were ratified and confirmed by Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, on March 12, 1545, and according to the description of them given in the dead, his crest was "an eagle rysing sables, holding in his right claw a pen argent, issuing thereout flames of fyer set upon a wreath argent and azure, mantelles gules, lined argent, botoned gold."

1900, Ex Libris Society (London, England), Journal, page 33