maroon

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Heading 5, and then italic and maroon which is the second down in the first column of colours.

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  1. transitive verb To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
  2. transitive verb To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.
  3. noun A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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  • Heading 5, and then italic and maroon which is the second down in the first column of colours. —  OXCGN - XBox News Reviews and Views
  • The fans let up a cheer as the maroon-clad groundskeepers (maroon?) rolled up the tarp 30 minutes before the first pitch, but in the end, Brenner said the game was largely irrelevant. —  Latest News
  • Amid a sea of Texas A&M maroon, the Tigers stayed calm down the stretch and again overcame their supposed nemesis - free throw shooting. —  The Bracket
  • It's actually a deep blue and maroon -- tastefully muted given its design. parish - 04 10 08 - 15: 46 —  Verbal Spew
  • WATERTOWN - Police continued their search Sunday for a maroon or red Subaru Impreza-type car that they say struck a motorcycle on Riverside Street in Oakville on Saturday night, then fled the scene. —  News from www.rep-am.com
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  1. From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cȳma, sprout; see cyma.
  2. French marron, chestnut, from Italian marrone.

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  1. Formerly marone; also, as F., marron; from French marron, a chestnut, chestnut-color, also a fire-cracker, maroon (II., 4), from Italian marrone, formerly marone, a chestnut; origin unknown. Cf. Middle Greek μάραον or μάραοσ, the fruit of the cornel-tree.
  2. Also rarely marroon; from French marron, abbreviation by apheresis (the syllable si- being perhaps mistaken for a F. word) from simarron (later obsolete English symaron) for *cimarron, from Spanish cimarron (= Portuguese cimarrão), wild, unruly, fugitive (Cuban negro cimarron, or simply cimarron, a fugitive negro), apparently orig. ‘living on the mountain-tops,’ from cima (=Portuguese Italian cima = French cime), a mountain-top, orig. a sprout, twig, from Latin cyma, a sprout, from Greek κῦμα, a sprout: see cyma, cyme.
  3. from maroon, n.
 

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