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roan
[ rohn ]
/ roÊŠn /
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adjective
(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
prepared from leather of this color.
noun
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
a roan color.
a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.
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Origin of roan
1520–30; <Middle French <Old Spanish roano<Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red
Words nearby roan
roadway, roadwork, roadworks, roadworthy, roam, roan, Roanoke, Roanoke Island, Roanoke Rapids, roar, roaring
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British Dictionary definitions for roan
roan
/ (rəʊn) /
adjective
(of a horse) having a bay (red roan), chestnut (strawberry roan), or black (blue roan) coat sprinkled with white hairs
noun
a horse having such a coat
a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
Word Origin for roan
C16: from Old French, from Spanish roano, probably from Gothic rauths red
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