Spanish or Portuguese term meaning chestnut-colored; reddish-brown in hue.
From Spanish/Portuguese 'castaño,' derived from Latin 'castaneus,' which comes from 'castanea' (chestnut tree).
This word shows how Spanish and Portuguese kept the Latin word for chestnut almost unchanged, while English borrowed the whole concept and created an entirely new word—'castanet'—based on the shape.
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