palomino

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The colt was a palomino, all right, in the classic--and rare--coin-gold, his mane and tail gleaming white as he frolicked around his mother.

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  1. noun A horse with a golden or tan coat and a white or cream-colored mane and tail, thought to have been developed from Arabian stock.

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  1. American Spanish, from Spanish, young dove, perhaps from Italian palombino, dove-colored, from Latin palumbīnus, pertaining to ringdoves, from palumbēs, ringdove; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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