a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
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a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
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(used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey
<adj.all> a roan horse
Roan \Roan\, n. 1. The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
2. A roan horse.
3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. --DeColange.
{Roan tree}. (Bot.) See {Rowan tree}.
Roan \Roan\ (r[=o]n), a. [F. rouan; cf. Sp. roano, ruano, It. rovano, roano.] 1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
Give my roan a drench. --Shak.
2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
{Roan antelope} (Zo["o]l.), a very large South African antelope ({Hippotragus equinus}). It has long sharp horns and a stiff bright brown mane. Called also {mahnya}, {equine antelope}, and {bastard gemsbok}.