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Roan
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(0. Fr. rouen, rouen; Ital. roano, rovano; perhaps connected with rufus, red), a word applied to a variety of colour in an animal's coat, especially that of a horse, where there is a mixture of grey or white hair with the prevailing tint of bay, chestnut or sorrel. A sorrel when thus modified is either a strawberry-roan or a cream-roan. The term is also used of a soft, flexible kind of leather made of sheepskin, used in bookbinding as a substitute for or in imitation of morocco; but in this sense the origin is doubtful.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Roan'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/roan.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Roan'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/roan.html. 1910.
