|
|
1. (adj.) roan
(chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
2. (n.) roan
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
3. (n.) roan
a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.
4. (adj.) roan
prepared with or bound in roan.
Etymology: (1810–20; of obscure orig.; relation, if any, with 16th cent., late ME
|
| Definition of 'roan' |
Princeton's WordNet |
|
1. (noun) roan
a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
2. (adj) roan
a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
3. (adj) roan
(used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey
"a roan horse"
|
| Definition of 'roan' |
Webster Dictionary |
|
1. (adj) roan
having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse
2. (adj) roan
made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding
3. (noun) roan
the color of a roan horse; a roan color
4. (noun) roan
a roan horse
5. (noun) roan
a kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco
|
|
|
|
|
| Alternative search options for 'roan' |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Definitions of roan 
