roan
About 0.43 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
- adjective Made of roan (kind of leather).
roan binding
- noun An animal (such as a horse) that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
- noun The color of such an animal.
- noun A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
- noun Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”).
Similar words
colorful colored coloured in color horse equine antelope chestnut chamois goose-rumped
Often followed by
antelope and horse mountain stallion mare was to in
Word family
roans
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