dun
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- noun
- /dʌn/
:
caballo pardo
- Tyler brought the dun up to the porch railing and said, "You know what horses are going for in Kansas City?"
- a dun horse
- a dun mare
- saddled dun
Examples
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Dun, dun, dun.
Blog text (12) -
Instead, he went to the stall that held his dun stallion, as tall as any of the Tairen animals but heavier in shoulder and haunch.
Fiction book (1992) -
And the word "dun" refers to a color; I have no idea how you're attempting to use it here.
Blog text (7) -
Aganippe went along with him, bringing over her zebra dun and helping secure both horses in the traces.
Fiction book (1996) -
He shook himself all over, his dun coat reflecting the sun into a halo of sweat beads like a dog shaking off the river.
Fiction book (2000) -
Horsetamer had saddled Aganippe's favorite mount, a zebra dun, with dark stripes on her legs and withers.
Fiction book (1996) -
He looks twenty pounds heavier, although she realizes this is all clothing and strategic padding, and his hair is very long, a dun brown shot with streaks of gray.
Fiction book (1994) -
The dun stallion balked, approaching his own dim reflection, but Perrin heeled him onward.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Do you remember the time when Dunny, his old dun gelding, pulled back and tore my fingernail off because I had the bridle reins wrapped around my hand?" he asks.
Fiction book (2000) -
At the back of the lot stood the horse, a 13-hand dun with protruding hip bones and a shaggy coat caked in mud.
Compounds
How Dark
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dun for a horse comes from the same old word dunn for 'dark brown', so a dun horse is simply a horse with that dull brownish‑grey coat and often a darker mane and tail.