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- noun Plural form of
roan .
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Examples
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After these divisions are made there are always some "off" horses, such as roans and browns, which are put into a lot by themselves and called the "brindles."
George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers Harry Castlemon 1878
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Their horses were plump and glossy: blacks, chestnuts, bays, roans, and skewbalds, with here and there an elegant blond palomino.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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Their horses were plump and glossy: blacks, chestnuts, bays, roans, and skewbalds, with here and there an elegant blond palomino.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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Their horses were plump and glossy: blacks, chestnuts, bays, roans, and skewbalds, with here and there an elegant blond palomino.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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Their horses were plump and glossy: blacks, chestnuts, bays, roans, and skewbalds, with here and there an elegant blond palomino.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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In the background was a paddockful of horses in pastel colors: strawberry roans, duns, and dapple grays.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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In the background was a paddockful of horses in pastel colors: strawberry roans, duns, and dapple grays.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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He wandered from stable to stable examining bays and roans, blue roans and piebalds, duns, sorrels, blacks, whites, grays and dapples, all mares or geldings.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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Because no good man laments or roans or weeps, no good man is pale and trembles, or says, “How will he receive me, how will he listen to me?”
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Scale and clean your herrings, take out the milts and roans, and skewer them round, season them with a little pepper and salt, put them in a deep pot, cover them with alegar, put to them a little whole Jamaica pepper, and two or three bay leaves; bake them and keep them for use.
English Housewifery 2004
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