maroon
adjective/məˈruːn/
/məˈruːn/
- dark red-brown in colourTopics Colours and Shapesc2Word Originadjective late 17th cent. (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th cent.
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