cremellon.adj.
/krᵻˈmɛləʊ/, U.S. /krəˈmɛloʊ/ A. n.
1. A horse having a pale, cream-coloured coat, light blue eyes, and pink skin.Now limited to horses that are homozygous for the particular gene (the Cream gene) which produces this colouring.
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cremello1944
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1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 44/2 Cremello, a type of albino horse with cream-colored coat, pink skin, and blue, ‘china’, eyes.
1956 B. Grant Longhorn iv. 44 He was particularly struck by a cremello... This horse was a beauty without a doubt and Sul fell in love with him.
1990 L. D. Van Vleck in J. W. Evans et al. Horse (ed. 2) ii. 54 The cremellos and perlinos (near-white horses)..result from a double dose of the dilution gene that produces palominos and buckskins.
2004 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 10 Apr. 18 The stolen animals included three bay Hackneys, a cremello,..a chestnut crossbred Arab and three foals.
2. Cremello colouring in a horse. See sense A. 1.
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1960 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 3 Oct. 27/4 The worst is cremello—a dirty white or cream color combined with light blue eyes.
1977 A. M. Winchester Genetics (ed. 5) i. 11/1 Pedigrees of other crosses..have shown that 100 percent palominos will be produced from crosses of chestnut with cremello, a light cream color.
2005 J. H. Dutson Storey's Illustr. Guide 96 Horse Breeds N. Amer. i. 33/2 Horses exhibit an endless variety of colors, from white to palest cremello.
B. adj.
Of a horse: having a pale, cream-coloured coat, light blue eyes, and pink skin.
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1946 Jrnl. Heredity 37 37/2 A genetic test..could easily be made.., as for example by mating a cremello stallion (DD bb) to a dominant white mare.
2005 J. H. Dutson Storey's Illustr. Guide 96 Horse Breeds N. Amer. ii. 173/1 Missouri Fox Trotters..may be bay, black, roan,..white, cremello, perlino, or champagne.
2010 Somerset Guardian (Nexis) 5 Aug. 15 A cremello pony, Image needs special care as with his pink skin he needs to be kept out of the sun's harmful rays.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1944