Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cab of the coupé type, introduced in New York in 1883: so named from its colors.

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  • adjective having a pattern of black and tan

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Examples

  • In the African-American magazine The Messenger, coeditor Chandler Owen called the black-and-tan “America’s most democratic institution,” where “we see white and colored people mix freely.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In the African-American magazine The Messenger, coeditor Chandler Owen called the black-and-tan “America’s most democratic institution,” where “we see white and colored people mix freely.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Gordon Setter: This black-and-tan beauty looks a little zaftig to me—but it could just be a thick coat.

    Westminster Dog Show 2012—Best in Show—as it happened 2012

  • Breda Muddler, which royal bitch, as every one who is familiar with the stud book knows, goes back as far as the almost mythical Spuds, with along the way no primrose dallyings with black-and-tan Killeney

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • Joplin's animal-control staff had found Bren, with her black-and-tan coat, buried in a pile of rubble in a residential area leveled by Sunday night's tornado.

    In Joplin, Bren the Lucky Pit Bull Ilan Brat 2011

  • A black-and-tan puppy burst into the clearing, wagging its tail so hard its entire body shook.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • A black-and-tan puppy burst into the clearing, wagging its tail so hard its entire body shook.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • With their black-and-tan coats like molten liquorice splashed with cooking sherry, these are handsome and intelligent if occasionally headstrong dogs.

    Dog days for British breeds 2009

  • There is one black-and-tan fellow whom I have dubbed Spike, for the interesting way his “bangs” stand straight up.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

  • There is one black-and-tan fellow whom I have dubbed Spike, for the interesting way his “bangs” stand straight up.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

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