chestnut (color)

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|title=Chestnut

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|source=Maerz and Paul

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Chestnut or castaneousIan Paterson. A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour. Thorogood Publishing Ltd, 2003 is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious.{{cite web|url=https://www.wordnik.com/words/badious|title=Wordnik|website=Wordnik.com|access-date=25 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630182723/https://www.wordnik.com/words/badious|archive-date=30 June 2016}}

Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from chestnut. {{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown.

Etymology

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The name chestnut derives from the color of the nut of the chestnut tree.

The first recorded use of chestnut as a color term in English was in 1555.Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 197 The color maroon is also named after the chestnut (via French marron).

Variations of chestnut

=Deep chestnut=

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|title=Chestnut (Crayola)

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Deep chestnut is the color called chestnut in Crayola crayons. This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup.

At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin colour of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon colour "Indian Red", originally formulated in 1958, to "Chestnut" in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronology.cfm|title=Explore Colors|website=crayola.com|access-date=25 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224041010/http://www2.crayola.com/colorcensus/history/chronology.cfm|archive-date=24 December 2012}} In reality, the colour Indian red has nothing to do with American Indians but is an iron oxide pigment the use of which is popular in India.