chestnut
- noun
- /ˈʧɛstnʌt/
- The café's chestnut red walls and light blue tables gave its interior a bright, welcoming air.
- chestnut red
If the baby's skin colour is darker than chestnut, it will simply not do.
- If the baby's skin colour is darker than chestnut, it will simply not do.
Examples
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The seats were brown like chestnuts and had small wrinkles that sighed when you sat on them.
Fiction book (1997) -
Here, works hung in two or three rows on draped walls of warm chestnut red.
Academic text (1991) -
I'm going to use hot chestnut for that nice cool dark brown.
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Did he have wavy hair and chestnut eyes?
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This is the perfect blush in the shade chestnut, which looks beautiful as well.
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Her eyes are huge, the color of chestnuts, bristling with urgency.
Fiction book (1999) -
Muffin had chestnut hair that looked like burnished bronze after a brushing.
Fiction book (1995) -
Esther, my mother's plump, chestnut-complected maid, opened the front door.
Fiction book (1999) -
The artist chose a rich chestnut color for the wooden furniture, giving it a warm and inviting look.
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Her hair was styled in soft waves that shimmered with a beautiful chestnut hue under the sunlight.
Synonyms
A medium dark brown color like cocoa beans
A medium to dark tan color like brown sugar
A deep reddish-brown color like wood from a tropical tree
A warm reddish brown colour like a nut
A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown
A medium to dark brown color like caramel
Compounds
A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn
- Specialized
A fungus that makes open sores on American chestnut trees and often kills them
A large eastern North American tree that makes edible nuts and strong wood
- Specialized
A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree
- US
A North American oak tree with leaves like a chestnut and dark, deeply ridged bark
- Specialized
A disease that kills American chestnut trees by making deep wounds in their bark
A small bushy tree from the southeastern United States that makes small edible nuts
A large tree from eastern North America that makes sweet edible nuts and useful wood
- Australian
A tall Australian tree with orange-yellow flowers and large pods that contain edible seeds like chestnuts
A large tree that loses its leaves and produces sweet edible nuts and useful wood
- Australian
An Australian tree with divided leaves, orange flowers, large pods, and dark strong wood
A large tree with hand-shaped leaves and showy flowers that make shiny brown seeds you cannot eat
- Specialized
A group of trees like horse-chestnuts with large flowers and glossy inedible seeds in hard cases
- Indian
A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building
- Specialized
A medium to large tree with big leaves that grows in wet areas of the southeastern United States
A medium-sized tree from the eastern United States with strong, durable wood
How Reddish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chestnut as a color comes from the warm brown of the nut, so calling hair or paint chestnut means it has the same deep reddish-brown as the chestnut.