Look up: maroon

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   Maroon
   The Maroon were escaped slaves in Jamaica who were armed by the Spanish to attack the British forces on the island during the late 17th and 18th centuries. They lived mainly in the mountainous region now known as cockpit country and developed a method of cooking known as 'jerking' peculiar to Jamaica.
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   Maroon
   A pyrotechnic producing a very loud explosion.
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   maroon
   [adj] - dark brownish to purplish red 2. [n] - an exploding firework used as a warning signal 3. [v] - leave stranded 4. [v] - isolate without resources
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   maroon
   In the West Indies and Suriname, a freed or escaped African slave. Maroons were organized and armed by the Spanish in Jamaica in the late 17th century and early 18th century. They harried the...
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   Maroon
   Ma·roon' noun [ Written also marroon .] [ French marron , abbrev. from Spanish cimarron wild, unruly, from cima the summit of a mountain; hence, negro cimarron a runaway negro that lives in the mountains.] In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
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   Maroon
   Ma·roon' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Marooned ; present participle & verbal noun Marooning .] [ See Maroon a fugitive slave.] To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party , a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in som ...
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   Maroon
   Ma·roon' (mȧ*rōn') adjective [ French marron chestnut-colored, from marron a large French chestnut, Italian marrone ; confer LGr. ma`raon . Confer Marron .] Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon . Maroon lake , lake prepared from madder, and distinguished for its transparency and the depth and durability of its color. ...
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   Maroon
   Ma·roon' noun 1. A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple. 2. An explosive shell. See Marron , 3.
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   maroon
   brownish-red adjective of dark brownish to purplish red
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    maroon
    noun an exploding firework used as a warning signal
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    maroon
    noun a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
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    maroon
    noun a person who is stranded (as on an island); `when the tide came in I was a maroon out there`
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    Maroon
    • (n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3. • (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains. • (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple. • (a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon. • (v. t.) To p...
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    Maroon
    (from the article `Latin American art`) Runaway groups of slaves, called `maroons,` coalesced in the more inhospitable areas of tropical forest, such as interior lowland Colombia and inland ... Saramaccan emerged primarily among the enslaved and Maroon, or escaped slave, populations. It is thought to have arisen from contact b...
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    Maroon
    An electrically fired thunderflash, set off in a steel tank fitted with a wire mesh top, to simulate an explosion. These are so loud that it is as well to inform the police in advance if one is to be set off (and at what time), so that they can be ready to deal with hundeds of reports of bombs going off!
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    maroon
    maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. Formerly much used in the West Indies and South America, the term later came to be used with particu...
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