Definition of "black-and-tan" []

• Having a black coat with tannish markings. Used of a dog. (adjective)
• Involving, recognizing, or admitting Black and white people equally: a black-and-tan organization. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the African-American magazine The Messenger, coeditor Chandler Owen called the black-and-tan “America’s most democratic institution,” where “we see white and colored people mix freely."
• "Joplin's animal-control staff had found Bren, with her black-and-tan coat, buried in a pile of rubble in a residential area leveled by Sunday night's tornado."
• "Gordon Setter: This black-and-tan beauty looks a little zaftig to me—but it could just be a thick coat."