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a color named after escaped slaves who built free nations in the wilderness
means A dark brownish-red color; or, as a verb, to abandon someone in a remote, isolated place with no way to escape.
from From the French 'marron,' meaning chestnut — and the color is exactly that of a roasted chestnut. The chestnut connection branches in a surprising way: 'maroon' as the people and the verb traces through American Spanish 'cimarrón,' a word for wild, feral livestock and runaway slaves who fled to the mountains and forests. So the color comes from the nut, while the verb — to strand and abandon — grew from the fate of those forced to live as fugitives in the wilderness. Two roots, one word.
- origin
- from Spanish 'cimarrón,' meaning wild and untamed
- verb form
- to be stranded, abandoned with no escape
- jamaica
- Maroon communities won independence from Britain in 1739
- the chestnut
- named for French marron, a dark roasted nut
- harvard
- its crimson rival shade defines university identity
maroon bells — twin peaks in colorado's elk mountains, the most photographed mountains in north america
maroon 5 — pop rock band formed in 2001, won 3 grammy awards and sold over 26 million records
maroons of jamaica — descendants of escaped slaves who established independent communities in jamaica from the 1600s onward