adjective
1.
(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
2.
prepared from leather of this color.
noun
3.
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
4.
a roan color.
5.
a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.
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Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French < Old Spanish roano < Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red
1520–30; < Middle French < Old Spanish roano < Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of a horse) having a bay (red roan), chestnut (strawberry roan), or black (blue roan) coat sprinkled with white hairs |
| —n | |
| 2. | a horse having such a coat |
| 3. | a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc |
| [C16: from Old French, from Spanish roano, probably from Gothic rauths red] | |
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Word Origin & History
roan
1530, from M.Fr. roan "reddish brown," perhaps from Sp. roano, from O.Sp. raudano, probably from a Gmc. source (cf. Gothic raudan, accusative of rauðs "red").
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Example sentences
Roan reviewed a sample of the proposed cobalt blue tile.
Adventurous travelers willing to forgo a car will be treated to zebras, reedbucks, roan antelope and bushbucks.
Roan is produced consistently only in the firstgeneration cross between these.
In a roan coat, individual colored hairs are mingled in with the white.
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