| 单词 | liver chestnut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliver chestnut liver chestnut adj. and n. (a) adj. (esp. of a horse) of a dark chestnut colour (cf. chestnut adj.); (b) n. this colour; a horse of this colour. ΚΠ 1864 Glasgow Herald 20 May 7/4 For sale, a liver chestnut cob, about 14 Hands. 1866 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 13/2 I like his own horse better, the liver-chestnut with the short legs. 1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 125 There is a dark type of chestnut, sometimes spoken of as liver-chestnut, which is actually chocolate. 1937 Times 24 June 7/4 I had noticed..a curious-coloured pony played by Major Pert in a previous match. Probably he would best be described as a liver-chestnut. 1950 M. M. Oliver Horseman's Island viii. 93 The liver chestnut had completely succumbed to Tania's charms. 1993 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 18 Sept. b1 He was..flopping around on the bare back of an agile liver chestnut horse called Unforgiven. < as lemmas |
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