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roan

roan

2 9.5
A horse with a brownish coat mixed with many white or gray hairs
  • noun
  • /roʊn/
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  • The blue roan horse galloped across the field, its speckled coat shining in the sunlight.
  • roan horse
  • roan stallion
  • blue roan

Examples

  • Nodding, he returned to his hansom and, standing near his roan horse, began scanning the busy thoroughfare for a replacement cab to flag down.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The small, easily spooked roan was getting a lot of national press.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The bay roan managed to escape.

    Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West (2022)

  • I had a little roan horse once, and they--

    Red River (1948)

  • Was he riding a blue roan?

    The Last Sunset (1961)

  • Sparhawk touched the big roan's neck with one hand.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Carlos's horse, a roan stallion, weighed nearly half a ton.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Anyway, Ceph was beautiful, a roan with a blaze and white stockings.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Sheriff Baldy was trying to unsaddle his dead horse, a large roan animal that had fallen about twenty steps from our cabin door.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Her brothers brought up a wagon with a high-handed roan in front and a slouchy mule in back.

    Fiction book (2001)

Surface Forms

roan singular
roans plural

Etymology

Roan as a noun for a horse follows the colour origin: it means a horse whose brown coat is thickly mixed with white or grey hairs, giving a speckled, 'roan' appearance.