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roan
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and " points "—lower legs, mane and tail—are mostly solid-colored. Horses with roan coats have white hairs evenly intermingled throughout ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roan \Roan\, n. The color of a roan horse; a roan color. A roan horse. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. --DeColange. Roan tree . (Bot.) See Rowan tree ...
Usage examples of roan.
Lord Jaufre and his party of grooms, austringers, and spaniels just outside the village, Melyssan saw that even the earl had exchanged his formidable black stallion for a quiet roan gelding.
She urged the old roan to a gallop and the buckboard began to rattle and sway.
Macklin swung into the saddle, reining back the chest- nut as Cissy climbed onto the roan.
Drey to Raif, then over to Mace Blackhail, who was busy hefting the saddle from the roan.
Amano made the boy ride in front with him, lest the roan upset Raku as well.
As Longarm unsaddled the roan, rubbed it down, and settled it in a stall with grain and water, he reflected on what he had learned so far.
Longarm unsaddled the roan, rubbed it down, and turned it into its usual stall.
Sharpe kicked his horse alongside Daniel Fletcher who was mounted on a big roan mare and leading an unsaddled Diomed by a long rein.
Hawken tucked under his left arm, he followed the Ute to where the sturdy roan waited.
Sir Wildred was a large man and he bestrode a raw-boned roan with the speed of a deer and the heart of a lion.
Wildred was a large man and he bestrode a raw-boned roan with the speed of a deer and the heart of a lion.
It was a brindled, mountainy roan, its coat all patchy with sweat, its miserable flanks still shuddering.
Once the two wizards were mounted, on a thick-necked black and a murrey roan, we made good time through the Caladhrian countryside.
I had been camped about a month I went across one day to enquire about a roan steer that had taken up with my bullocks, and there I saw Agnes for the first time.
I bought this roan steer off Cameron, and that started a sort of acquaintance.