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
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
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
The roan had all the pride and fire any grown man would want in his best horse, yet was as gentle as a pet.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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