Color Names

Velvety Chestnut

Soft, dusty fur of a chestnut horse, rather than the glossy nut itself.

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Velvety Chestnut is a warm grey.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Velvety Chestnut

Chestnut

Chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Chestnut (color)

Chestnut or castaneous is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown, and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.

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velvety

Adjective

  1. Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.
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chestnut

Noun

  1. An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.
  2. In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

Adjective

  1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).
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