roan
Americanadjective
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(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
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prepared from leather of this color.
noun
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a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
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a roan color.
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a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.
adjective
noun
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a horse having such a coat
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a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
Etymology
Origin of roan
1520–30; < Middle French < Old Spanish roano < Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red
Example Sentences
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At Red Cliffs Lodge near Moab, I rode a big, red roan horse named Little Joe on a three-hour trail ride through the valley where the 1950 movie “Rio Grande” was filmed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021
Around and around go the toddlers on Jazz, the long-maned roan pony, as their parents snap smartphone candids.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
He called the servant man to go, Saddled the dappled roan, And he rode to her father’s house that night, Knocked on the door alone.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
He drew attention from his first day on the job, when he mounted a roan gelding to ride across Washington’s National Mall to the Department of Interior.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2018
Inside the barn, we shed our ponchos and, armed with a curry comb and a dandy brush, each took a horse, Cinders for me, a roan named Clover, in the next stall, for Miss Maggie.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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