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单词 roan
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
roan1 /roʊn/USA pronunciation   adj. 
  1. (chiefly of horses) light reddish brown.

n. [countable]
  1. a horse or other animal with a skin or coat of such color.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
roan  (rōn),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
  2. prepared from leather of this color.

n. 
  1. a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
  2. a roan color.
  3. a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.
  • Gmc; compare Gothic rauths red
  • Old Spanish roano
  • Middle French
  • 1520–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
roan /rəʊn/ adj
  1. (of a horse) having a bay (red roan), chestnut (strawberry roan), or black (blue roan) coat sprinkled with white hairs
n
  1. a horse having such a coat
  2. a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
Etymology: 16th Century: from Old French, from Spanish roano, probably from Gothic rauths red
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