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Maroon   /mərˈun/   Listen
Maroon

adjective
1.
Of dark brownish to purplish red.  Synonym: brownish-red.
noun
1.
A person who is stranded (as on an island).
2.
A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color.
3.
An exploding firework used as a warning signal.
verb
(past & past part. marooned; pres. part. marooning)
1.
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.  Synonym: strand.
2.
Leave stranded on a desert island without resources.



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"Maroon" Quotes from Famous Books



... lovely time, don't you know," drawled William Philander. "While Stanley posted some letters and addressed some picture postals I did up the shops. And what do you think? I found a beautiful new maroon necktie, and it was only a dollar—same kind they would charge one seventy-five for in the big cities. And I saw a new style of collar, and some patent-leather pumps that have bows with loose ...
— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer
... Flag: maroon field with small rectangle in upper hoist side corner; rectangle divided horizontally with black on ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... gripped him. The surgeon winced with the pain of his grasp. "I can't," gasped the maroon, between paroxysms. "I've been living in hell. A black, shaking, shivering hell, for God knows how long.... What do you know? Have you ever been buried alive?" And again the agony ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the nut in a bunch. This is the nut. The shells when opened are as attractive as anything I know of. This is a very thick walled variety. We have much thinner walled forms that have come from Hawaii where it is now being grown. The dark part is a maroon brown and the lighter part is a brilliant creamy yellow. Altogether it is an extremely attractive nut, an excellent eating nut and has very good food qualities. We have had them analyzed, and all ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various
... that the door opened again, and there did enter a stripling, clad all in dark maroon velvet, wrapped also about with a long cloak, and having a velvet bonnet pulled down over his brows i' th' manner o' Lord Denbeigh's. One could see naught o' his visage for the shadow from his head-gear. The revelers scarce noted his entrance, being ...
— A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales • Amelie Rives


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