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Maroon is a color mixture
composed of brown and purple. Although
conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it
didn't become a color-word in English until ca 1791.
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Color Coordinates
Hex triplet = #800000
RGB (r, g, b) = (128, 0, 0)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) = (0, 128, 128, 127)
HSV (h, s, v) = (0, 100, 50)
A Maroon (from the word marronage or cimarrón) was a runaway slave. Eventually, the terms was generalized to include any slave or any group of slaves that had rebelled or escaped
from their owners. Individual groups of Maroons often joined with indigenous
tribes. Characteristics of the various cultural groups differ widely because of
difference in history, geography,
African origin, and the culture of Indigenous people throughout the Western hemisphere. Populations of Maroons are found north from the Amazon river Basin to the American states of Florida and North Carolina. Maroons played an
important role in the histories of Brazil, Suriname, and Jamaica.
Maroon settlements often possess a clannish, outsider identity.
Slaves began running away into the jungle as soon as slavery was introduced to the
Americas. Indigenous tribes provided a new home and community to those separated from their own tribes in Africa. Maroons are an example of successful resistance to slavery.
A name for a Maroon village is a palenque. The palenqueros
developed a Creole language mixing Spanish and their African
languages. Other Maroon Creole languages were Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo.
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The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team, in existence from 1924 to
1938, with a final record of 271-260-91, and were Stanley Cup champions in 1926 and again in 1935.
The Chicago Maroon is the independent student newspaper of the
University of Chicago, in publication since 1892.
A maroon is a type of rocket which makes a loud banging report. It is used, for example, in the United Kingdom by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to call the crew when the lifeboat needs to be launched.
See marooning for the act of leaving someone on a desert
island.
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