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Перевод: chestnut
[прилагательное] каштановый; каштанового цвета; гнедой; [существительное] каштан ; избитый анекдот; бабка [анат.] ; гнедая лошадь
Тезаурус:
- The effects must be charming, to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele, the Chestnut, the poplar, the acacia, the horse-chestnut, cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze, then how beautiful the contrast, how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene.
- Randy Crawford Veteran soul diva whose live shows often features a maudlin rendition of that old John Lennon chestnut, "Imagine".
- On his arrival in Australia the unnamed chestnut colt was a tall, ungainly and unsightly animal with no hint of quality, and Davis so regretted his outlay, however modest, that the only way Telford could keep the horse in training was to make an arrangement with Davis whereby Telford himself took a three-year lease on the horse, taking two thirds of any prize money won in return for footing the training bill.
- Thomas Fairchild (1667-;1729) was already known for his City Gardener , with its advice on flowers, evergreens and shrubs suitable for London gardens and another member, Robert Furber, who experimented with many new trees and plants in his Kensington nursery numbered a horse chestnut with a scarlet flower amongst his novelties.
- Amongst the former - plain sycamore, box and horse chestnut, for example - you can find good variations of tone and hue, but very little marking.
- "I've never eaten them," Richard gazed up at the man, his clear chestnut eyes, starry with their thick lashes, open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim.
- Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel's family since 1942, but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else's, putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium.
- The French made countless varieties of goats' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia (see p67).
- The central figure, St Cecilia, seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter's mind; her deep, dark, eloquent eyes lifted up; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead - she holds an organ in her hands - her countenance, as it were, calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture, and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life.
- Already research has begun into chemicals from the Morton Bay Chestnut, an Australian Rainforest tree, as an inhibitive drug against the Aids virus.
- Of course this has always been the case for all entrants, for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies, so few have a chief officer's truncheon in their knapsack (to paraphrase an old army chestnut).
- From his vantage point astride Fleet, a chestnut police horse, PC Schrosbree could afford to look happy as he presided over the slow-moving queue.
- "The sweet chestnut.
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