With her porcelain skin and shiny, chestnut-colored hair, Ms. Coscarelli certainly appears to be a testament to the health benefits of the vegan lifestyle.
When, in "Habibi," a slave trader lists for a prospective buyer all the hues for sale — "charcoal, cinnamon, shiny prune, chestnut" — and one of the slaves corrects him, "Actually, I'm closer to walnut," the joke is jejune at best.
Yesterday morning over breakfast, as I was reading an article in the Sunday Times real estate section about soaring rents in Manhattan, the words "financial district" triggered a memory: the shiny glass and chestnut-hued vestibule of an apartment or condominium tower of the contemporary type.
Born at the Meadow Stud in Virginia, he was a handsome chestnut — "bright as an orange, shiny as brass" — and the manager of the farm described him as a "big, strong-made foal with plenty of bone".
So here it is once more, wrapped up in the finest, shiniest rhetoric: I mean, of course, that tasty old chestnut the Death of the Novel.
Kate's shiny hair and long legs are a triumph of will – and a possible injection of chestnut mare hormones in early adolescence – over genetics.
This is a shiny, pale-yellow oval or fingerling-shaped potato with a firm texture and a flavor suggesting chestnuts and hazelnuts.
Its shiny coat is straight and flat, with feathering on the ears, legs, chest, belly, and tail; originally red and white, solid mahogany or chestnut brown is now preferred.
