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21 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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roan
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tags: [equestrian]
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Definition:a horse coat evenly interspersed with pigmented and white hair
photo:Betty Wills, Wikimedia Commons, License CC-BY-SA 4.0
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"How's my roan? is he doing all right?" he inquired, looking out of the window at the middle one of the three horses, which he had sold Vronsky.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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"And this here's my daddy," he said, smiling at a little old man who came around the house leading a big roan horse that was saddled up.
Olive Ann Burns. Cold Sassy Tree, p.292 (1984)
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