Definitions
of dark brownish to purplish red
Word origin
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
Used in a sentence
“Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.”
“Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved.”
“In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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