sable-gloved

Updated: May 24, 2025

And I cannot doubt that good Judge Sewall found as true and deep a pleasure albeit a melancholy one in slowly leading, sable-gloved and sable-cloaked, the funeral procession of one of the honored deputies through narrow Boston streets, as did roystering Morton in marshalling his drunken revellers at noisy Merrymount.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England