单词 | roan |
释义 | roan[ rohn ] / roʊn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR roan ON THESAURUS.COM adjective(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white. prepared from leather of this color. nouna horse or other animal with a roan coat. a roan color. a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco. Origin of roan1520–30; <Middle French <Old Spanish roano<Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red Words nearby roanroadway, roadwork, roadworks, roadworthy, roam, roan, Roanoke, Roanoke Island, Roanoke Rapids, roar, roaring Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for roanBritish Dictionary definitions for roanroan / (rəʊn) / adjective(of a horse) having a bay (red roan), chestnut (strawberry roan), or black (blue roan) coat sprinkled with white hairs nouna horse having such a coat a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc Word Origin for roanC16: from Old French, from Spanish roano, probably from Gothic rauths red Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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