sorrel
/ˈsɔɹəl/ adjective C2- Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)
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Matthew hitched the sorrel into the buggy in due time and Marilla and Anne set off.
Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
I can in the sorrel sit
And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past three on the afternoon of a busy day, placidly driving over the hollow and up the hill; moreover, he wore a white collar and his best suit of clothes, which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea; and he had the buggy and the sorrel mare, which betokened that he was going a considerable distance.
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