Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horse with a golden or tan coat and a white or cream-colored mane and tail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horse of light tan or golden color with cream or white mane and tail, and often having white markings on the legs and face.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a horse with a
golden -colored coat and a white or cream-coloredmane and tail
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Most sherry comes from an undistinguished grape called palomino: "sherry is made in the winery, not the field," says Beatriz Pascual, sherry specialist at award-winning wine merchants Boutinot.
The sherry revival Norman Miller 2010
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Our No. 2 wine, the 2008 Tinto Tradicional from Monje, on Tenerife, a large island in the center of the chain, is a blend of listán negro and negramoll, another red grape, along with some listán blanco, a white grape that is better known as the palomino, the leading grape of sherry.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2012
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Our No. 2 wine, the 2008 Tinto Tradicional from Monje, on Tenerife, a large island in the center of the chain, is a blend of listán negro and negramoll, another red grape, along with some listán blanco, a white grape that is better known as the palomino, the leading grape of sherry.
NYT > Global Home By ERIC ASIMOV 2012
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I took out the old palomino horse I used to call Pony from a torn moldy box.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I reach up and touch the objects on our dresser—an old teddy bear, a stuffed horse, and a plastic palomino I call Pony.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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According to "The Horse," a new exhibit at the Field Museum, every modern-day horse—including the palomino that played Mister Ed—is descended from one genus, Equus, which survived the Ice Age some 11 million years ago in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Tracking Equine Evolution Mark Yost 2011
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He tends to his eight cats, three dogs, five goats and a palomino horse, named Boss.
A One-Horse Town Down to Two People James R. Hagerty 2011
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I reach up and touch the objects on our dresser—an old teddy bear, a stuffed horse, and a plastic palomino I call Pony.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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A palomino mare named Star grazes on Debbie DeLouise's clover meadow, hanging out at a salt lick there and frolicking with her foal Holly.
You Can Lead a Virtual Horse to Water, But You Might Get Sued Along the Way Justin Scheck 2011
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I took out the old palomino horse I used to call Pony from a torn moldy box.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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