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roan
[ rohn ]
adjective
- (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
- prepared from leather of this color.
noun
- 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.
roan
/ rəʊn /
adjective
- (of a horse) having a bay ( red roan ), chestnut ( strawberry roan ), or black ( blue roan ) coat sprinkled with white hairs
noun
- a horse having such a coat
- a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
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Example Sentences
And "how Lem Wheeler, while out hunting that roan steer o' hisn, had heard a moanin' an' a wailin' under the bluff."
They saw a number of ponies tied at one end of the camp, and among them they identified the piebald and the roan.
For fear of it he raced the tall roan furiously through the night.
He had to place the muzzle of the gun against the roan's temple and pull the trigger.
One on a big sorrel and the other on a roan with white stockings on the front feet?
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