roan

[US]/rəʊn/
[UK]/ron/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.soft sheepskin;speckled horse
adj.with a coat of mixed colors
Word Forms
Pluralroans

Phrases & Collocations

a roan horse

roan coat color

Example Sentences

played five dollars on the roan horse.

Real-world Examples

" Not but what the roan was a better trotter than yours" .

Source: Middlemarch (Part Two)

If anyone comes between you and our horses, kill him. I take the roan.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

He's a blue roan and he is 16 and a half hands, he's very tall.

Source: Architectural Digest

Then with a rattle and a jingle of cans came Robinson's cousin, little Tom Pigg, driving a strawberry roan pony, in a milk float.

Source: Peter Rabbit and His Friends (Part 2)

He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.

Source: Itan Flomei

He might have offered Robinson a lift, only he happened to be going in the opposite direction; in fact, the strawberry roan pony was running away home.

Source: Peter Rabbit and His Friends (Part 2)

A street-lamp faced him, and in its light he saw Julius Beaufort's compact English brougham, drawn by a big roan, and the banker descending from it, and helping out Madame Olenska.

Source: The Age of Innocence (Part One)

The roan was close at hand, and in another instant all would have been safe; but as the figure in the scarlet cassock stepped forward, the Gadfly suddenly wavered and the hand with the pistol sank down.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

" Why, waiting for me to take a ride. I got the roan colt too. I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, " Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.

Source: Itan Flomei

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