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BLACK AND TAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Black and Tan" is a kind of...):
military recruit; recruit (a recently enlisted soldier)
Context examples:
A short, fairly hard coat of hair covers the body and comes in black and tan, liver and tan, and red and tawny.
(Bloodhound, NCI Thesaurus)
Griffons come in red, a mixture of red-brown and black, black and tan, and solid black.
(Brussels Griffon, NCI Thesaurus)
The ears are long with abundant feathering, and it has a silky coat, sometimes with a slight waviness that comes in ruby, black and tan, tri-color and blenheim (chestnut on a pearly-white background).
(Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
Colors are brindle, blue merle, black, black and tan, black and brindle, sable, and red, often with white markings.
(Cardigan Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)
The Basenji is a small, elegant, athletic dog about the size of a fox terrier, with a smooth shiny coat of copper, red, black and tan, black and brindle.
(Basenji, NCI Thesaurus)
The soft coat is well feathered and comes in four colors varieties: King Charles (black and tan), Ruby (solid red, sometimes with a few white hairs or small white patch on the chest), Blenheim (white with red markings, often with a red thumb print centered on the top of the head), and Prince Charles (tri-color: white with black and tan markings).
(English Toy Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
The Black and Tan Coonhound is a large, powerful working hound with long pendent ears.
(Black and Tan Coonhound, NCI Thesaurus)
