roan
(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
prepared from leather of this color.
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.
Origin of roan
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How to use roan in a sentence
And "how Lem Wheeler, while out hunting that roan steer o' hisn, had heard a moanin' an' a wailin' under the bluff."
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell WrightThey saw a number of ponies tied at one end of the camp, and among them they identified the piebald and the roan.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorFor fear of it he raced the tall roan furiously through the night.
Riders of the Silences | John FrederickHe had to place the muzzle of the gun against the roan's temple and pull the trigger.
Riders of the Silences | John FrederickOne on a big sorrel and the other on a roan with white stockings on the front feet?
The Highgrader | William MacLeod Raine
British Dictionary definitions for roan
/ (rəʊn) /
(of a horse) having a bay (red roan), chestnut (strawberry roan), or black (blue roan) coat sprinkled with white hairs
a horse having such a coat
a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
Origin of roan
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