Roan

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a chestnut, bay, or sorrel coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray: a roan horse.
  • n. The characteristic coloring of a roan horse.
  • n. A roan horse or other animal.
  • n. A soft flexible sheepskin leather, often treated to resemble morocco and used in bookbinding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
  • n. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
  • n. The color of such an animal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
  • adj. Made of the leather called roan.
  • n. The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
  • n. A roan horse.
  • n. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a bay, sorrel, or chestnut color, with gray or white hairs more or less thickly interspersed: said chiefly of horses. A bright-red mixture is called strawberry-roan or red-roan.
  • n. An animal, especially a horse, of a roan color.
  • n. A roan color; the color of a roan horse.
  • n. A soft and flexible sheepskin, largely used by bookbinders, and often made in imitation of morocco.
  • n. Same as rowan.
  • n. A clump of whins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey
  • n. a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
  • n. a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
  • Equivalent
    coloured    colorful    colored   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    equus caballus    horse    leather   
    Cross Reference
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    piebald    sorrel    stallion    chestnut    buckskin    pinto    dappled    dun    thoroughbred    mare