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Chestnut horse
Answer for the clue "Chestnut horse ", 6 letters:
sorrel
Alternative clues for the word sorrel
- Light reddish-brown, as some horse coats
- Spanakopita herb
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- Horse, plant or color
- Herb in spinach pie
- Horse, herb or color
- Certain horse
- Sour-tasting leaves used in salads and sauces
- Reddish brown horse
Word definitions for sorrel in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"reddish brown," especially of horses, mid-14c., from Old French sorel , from sor "yellowish-brown," probably from Frankish *saur "dry," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sauza- (cognates: Middle Dutch soor "dry," Old High German soren ...
Usage examples of sorrel.
Her garments, the travel-worn garb from the fisher-cot, were drenched in oil of lavendera gift from Betony and Sorrel.
To his left were seated Betony and Sorrel, now joyously reunited with their brother.
It was not until the autumn, when it was time for the flowers to die, that the sorrel blessing of waste lands flushed rosily and the arnica showed its stars of slender threads of gold, and there might even be a slight glimpse of purple aster and a dusty spray or two of goldenrod.
When Zofal threatened to walop me for fraternal irreverence I made the sorrel wheel and dance around him in a tight circle, and laughed at him until he had to join in.
Max Sorrel invited Bunsen to bring his wife to dinner at the Golden Lamb Chop some evening.
Bewildered, Aldora regarded the thousands of horseswhites, grays, bays, chestnuts, sorrels, roans, claybanks and blacks with occasional pintos, piebalds and that flaxen-maned and tailed variety of golden-chestnut known as palomino.
Mosses and grass added their shades to the verdant mosaic of lush growth and small plants, from oxalis, the cloverlike wood sorrel, to tiny succulents clinging to exposed rock faces.
Then the title got to include other broad-leaved herbs, all of the Sorrel kind, and used in pottage, or in medicine.
A bay and a sorrel were standing hipshot, cheek-to-rump, stomping flies.
Then the stalwart fellow had given the stable boy a gold eagle and sent him to find some johnnycakes, instructing him to feed them to the star sorrel.
Buck Laramie to lean forward to pat the head of his tired sorrel, for at that instant a bullet ripped through his hat-brim, instead of his head.
Gravel spurted as the sorrel threw back his head against the sawing bit and came to a sliding stop, and all in one motion Laramie was out of the saddle and on his feet beside the sheriff--half crouching and his six-gun cocked and pointed.
And there was plenty to eat now: grass, coltsfoot, mountain sorrel, lousewort, sedge, dwarf birch.
Saxon stood under the father of all madronos, watching Hazel and Hattie go out the gate, the full vegetable wagon behind them, when she saw Billy ride in, leading a sorrel mare from whose silken coat the sun flashed golden lights.
Lucky snapped as she untangled herself from the sidesaddle and threw her leg over the sorrel.