a horse having a chestnut coat sprinkled with white hairs such a coat
strawberry roan in American English
reddish roan
strawberry roan in American English
noun
a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs
Word origin
[1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, cloverleaf, kickback, logical positivism, uncertainty principle