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Definition of Liver chestnut
1. Noun. A solid dark brown horse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liver Chestnut
Literary usage of Liver chestnut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1898)
"For the horse may be the best of his kind—a liver chestnut, with shape, substance,
courage, and impatience that stops short of excitement, an impetuous goer ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869)
"... Is there not a liver-chestnut hackney iI thought I saw something about a
six-year-old horse, warranted sound. and perfectly trained to the saddle. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Look at the liver chestnut the groom is riding, — there's the horse for my money, —
so long and so low, — a regular turnspit, and equal to any weight. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"... very fine earthy in the small; dull; color, liver, chestnut,—dark yellowish
brown ; opaque; does not soil, but writes ; adheres strongly to the tongue, ..."
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