Roan

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1. Adjective

Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.

2. Adjective

Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.

3. Noun

The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

4. Noun

A roan horse.

5. Noun

A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

6. Noun

a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
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