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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Gray or roan horses are 0 for their last 31 in the Derby; Essential Quality and Soup and Sandwich will aim to snap that drought.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021
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
The horse, a bay roan gelding standing just over 17 hands tall, is normally kept in stables on the Mall and is owned by the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2017
That afternoon, she’d taken out a tan roan stallion with a gorgeous black mane.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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