1) Abandon 2) Abandon colour 3) Abandon on an island 4) Abandon on an isle 5) Boston College hue 6) Brick color 7) Brown-red 8) Brownish red 9) Brownish-red 10) Chromatic 11) Claret 12) Colgate color 13) Colour with French origin 14) Color with Continental origin 15) Color with French origin 16) Colour
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1) Amur 2) Crimson 3) Dark red 4) Desert 5) Enisle 6) Isolate 7) Red 8) Redness 9) Strand 10) Wine-red
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Maroon (n {respell|mə|ROON|`} or n {respell|mə|RONE|`}) is a dark brownish red color which takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as `a brownish crimson or claret color.` In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, maroon is created by turning down t...
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[people] Maroons (from the Latin-American Spanish word cimarrón: `feral animal, fugitive, runaway`, lit. `living on mountaintops`; from Spanish cima: `top, summit`) were African refugees that escaped slavery in the Americas and formed independent settlements. The term can also be applied to their descendants. The same root word also gives ...
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[rocket] A maroon is a type of rocket which makes a loud banging report (noise) and a bright flash. It is used as an alarm or warning, for example the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution uses these rockets to call the crew when the lifeboat needs to be launched. Another example was as a signal on a railway, to alert oncoming trains ...
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A fairly common punishment for violation of a pirate ship's articles, or offending her crew. The victim was left on a deserted coast (or, of course, an island) with little in the way of supplies. That way, no one could say that the unlucky pirate had actually been killed by his former brethren.
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• (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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(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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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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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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A pyrotechnic producing a very loud explosion.
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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 pr...
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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 ne...
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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. ...
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Maroons was a name given to escaped slaves in Jamaica and South America. When Jamaica was conquered by the English in 1655 about 1500 slaves retreated to the mountains, and, armed by the Spanish, continued to attack the British forces on the island during the late 17th and 18th centuries, leading a resistance to slavery until they were finally subd...
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Maroon is British slang for a fool.
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A pyrotechnic which produces a loud bang. Must always be used in a bomb tank.
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brownish-red adjective of dark brownish to purplish red
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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 British with guerrilla tactics. A peace treaty was signed in 1739 between the Maroons and the British, granting the Maroons land and exemption from taxes. In ...
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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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Anaabi Rung
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(color) granate, bordó
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To abandon a person on a deserted coast or island with little in the way of supplies. It is a fairly common punishment for violation of a pirate ship's articles, or offending her crew because the victims death cannot be directly connected to his former brethren.
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Leave someone stranded on a deserted island with no supplies, which was a common punishment for any crew members who disrespected or dishonored the Captain
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[Pirate glossary] leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
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