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How to pronounce roan in English?

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Type of equus caballus, horse
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Type of leather
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a roan horse.

Examples of roan

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Jackson's gray or roan Langfuhr colt was the night's highest-priced 2-year-old.
From the courier-journal.com
The horse is nearly white-grey or roan technically, but to the eye, nearly white.
From the forbes.com
Less common colors, recognized in the United States include roan and palomino.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Roan Inish was third in the race, the opening leg of Canadian racing's Triple Crown.
From the stltoday.com
Animals likely to be seen are elephant, roan and kudu, buffalo occur towards the west.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Roan was not used to seeing Laura that tall and it shocked him at first.
From the al.com
Then, a few years later, that roan filly gave birth to a white filly.
From the kentucky.com
The roan son of El Prado came out of a workout Saturday at Gulfstream Park with the fracture.
From the courier-journal.com
Roan reckons the average career change takes two or three years.
From the him.uk.msn.com
More examples
  • (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse"
  • A soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
  • Roan is a coat color found in many animals, notably horses, cattle and dogs. It is defined generally as an even mixture of white and pigmented hairs that does not "gray out" or fade as the animal ages."roan, a. and n.1" Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd edition 1989. OED Online. ...
  • Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and "points"-lower legs, mane and tail-are more solid-colored. The roan pattern is dominantly-inherited, and is found in many horse breeds. ...
  • An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in; the color of such an animal; especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
  • (Roans) Sumac tanned sheepskins. (1)
  • Fine mixture of coloured hairs alternating with white hairs (e.g. Italian Spinone).
  • Horse with white hairs mingledthroughout its coat.
  • Mixture of white and red (or brown) hairs.