Definition of "palomino" [pal•o•mi•no]

• 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. (noun)

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• "Most sherry comes from an undistinguished grape called palomino: "sherry is made in the winery, not the field," says Beatriz Pascual, sherry specialist at award-winning wine merchants Boutinot."
• "Our No. 2 wine, the 2008 Tinto Tradicional from Monje, on Tenerife, a large island in the center of the chain, is a blend of listán negro and negramoll, another red grape, along with some listán blanco, a white grape that is better known as the palomino, the leading grape of sherry."
• "According to "The Horse," a new exhibit at the Field Museum, every modern-day horse—including the palomino that played Mister Ed—is descended from one genus, Equus, which survived the Ice Age some 11 million years ago in Eastern Europe and Central Asia."