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Definition of: roan
(rōn) adjective
1. Of a color consisting of bay, sorrel, or chestnut, thickly interspersed with gray or white, as a horse.
2. Made of roan leather.
—noun
1. A roan color.
2. An animal of a roan color.
3. A soft sheepskin leather, tanned to a roan color and used in bookbinding: also roan leather. [<OF <Sp. roano,? ult. <L <ravus grayish-yellow]
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