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- adjective Having a style of
trimming ahorse 'smane so that the hair stands straight up from the neck, similar to the natural growth pattern of a zebra's mane, or amohawk haircut on a human.
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Examples
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He was a middle-aged man with some gray in his roached hair.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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He was a middle-aged man with some gray in his roached hair.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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It had a long slender neck, with a short roached mane that stopped just short of its horn.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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"So would the Elves," Shalkan agreed somberly, shaking his short roached mane.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Her name was Frost, and she was white with a rime of gray on her roached mane.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Her name was Frost, and she was white with a rime of gray on her roached mane.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Her name was Frost, and she was white with a rime of gray on her roached mane.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Their faces were red and weather-blasted below their white foreheads, the coarse hair on their round heads grown iron-gray and as stiff as the roached mane of a horse.
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Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached.
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Dark tufts sprouted from his back, spiked as the bristles that roached up on the spines of the growling mongrels.
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