亚洲网紅露点

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roan

[ rohn ]

adjective

  1. (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
  2. prepared from leather of this color.


noun

  1. a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
  2. a roan color.
  3. a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.

roan

/ 谤蓹蕣苍 /

adjective

  1. (of a horse) having a bay ( red roan ), chestnut ( strawberry roan ), or black ( blue roan ) coat sprinkled with white hairs
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a horse having such a coat
  2. a soft unsplit sheepskin leather with a close tough grain, used in bookbinding, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of roan1

1520鈥30; < Middle French < Old Spanish roano < Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of roan1

C16: from Old French, from Spanish roano , probably from Gothic rauths red
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At Red Cliffs Lodge near Moab, I rode a big, red roan horse named Little Joe on a three-hour trail ride through the valley where the 1950 movie 鈥淩io Grande鈥 was filmed.

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The roan lifted her lean, bony head, tossed her mane, spun about, and galloped from the clearing.

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Gray or roan horses are 0 for their last 31 in the Derby; Essential Quality and Soup and Sandwich will aim to snap that drought.

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One safari outfitter from Africa was offering a $25,000 鈥淭rump Special,鈥 inviting hunters to 鈥渕ake your own drone strike鈥 by shooting a buffalo, sable, roan antelope and crocodile in a single trip.

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鈥淎nd this here鈥檚 my daddy,鈥 he said, smiling at a little old man who came around the house leading a big roan horse that was saddled up.

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