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adjective məˈruːnməˈrun Of a brownish-red colour. ornate maroon and gold wallpaper Example sentencesExamples - Police say a 16-year-old girl was stopped by two men driving a maroon sedan around 12.15 pm.
- Besides the regular reddish maroon colour, there are cream pastes to leave pink, blue, violet, magenta designs on the skin.
- The walls were painted a deep, peaceful maroon colour, and there were paintings of Italian landscapes and other things tacked to the walls.
- I was in my maroon traveling suit with the gold trimmings and a maroon velvet hat with matching feather secure on my head.
- Her friends room was quite modern; the carpet had been dyed a rich maroon colour, the walls were plainly white and the roof painted black.
- She found herself in a rather tatty entrance hallway, with new maroon flock wallpaper and, less impressively, peeling paint and worn carpeting.
- A few rugs were place around the room, deep gold and laced with maroon edges to match the upholstery of the couch.
- The wrap colors include a multi blue, black, white, red, turquoise, purple, jade green, navy blue, gold and a maroon type of color.
- Walking down the path that led to the gates, a man dressed in a blue and maroon robe with gold trimming approached them.
- I love the gold silk layer under the maroon chiffon.
- At the right was a living room covered with maroon wallpaper and gold moon and stars.
- She led him, silently, to a large room with maroon curtains and cherry furniture.
- His gaze fell upon a woman in her thirties wearing a maroon suit with a gold pin on her lapel.
- Mixed with other, deep maroon flowers and streaks of grey foliage plants, scarlet blooms drift through borders.
- The walls were a dull maroon colour, and made up of hard terraplate.
- A neat maroon carpet with gold lining was on the floor.
- The maroon colours were engulfed in a light blue light.
- They soon reached the main quarters, where a plump little man wearing a maroon suit was sitting and counting a pile of gold coins.
- The choir's maroon robes and gold collars shined in the sun, as they walked into the gym.
- Some farmers cultivate bi-colour flowers like light yellow with maroon blotches, deep crimson-edged yellow, gold and red bicolour.
noun məˈruːnməˈrun 1mass noun A brownish-red colour. the hat is available in either white or maroon count noun cold pinks, purples, and maroons Example sentencesExamples - Red, maroon, yellow, blue are good colours for neckties, patterned or solid.
- Everyone looks at him as the stripes of reddish brownish maroon streak his face.
- The furniture in the room was either white or maroon, Miranda's favorite colors.
- Anyway, very few flowers in my yard flaunt the single colours - bright yellow, soft pink, browny maroon, crimson - black - of my original sowing.
- Last Sunday was officially declared a day of no rest in Ballinrobe, as local painters and decorators coloured the town in maroon and yellow.
- From my limited knowledge I also found the colour unusual - a sort of brownish maroon I would say from memory.
- It seems to be duller than usual; the grey buildings have a hint of yellow to them and the sky is a pale grey colour, infused with maroon.
- They come with many different leaf colours, from maroon and cream, to copper and lime, usually with interesting variegations.
- A few flags waved from their poles, sporting the Institution's signature colors - maroon and white.
- The fans created a haze of maroon and white as hundreds joined together in simultaneously swirling their scarves above their heads.
- She looked to be around my age with very dark brown hair that was tinted in maroon.
- The ones in the family room are maroon, teal and white. The hardware in the living room is gold plastic.
- All roads into the town will be a sea of green and red and maroon and white as another generation answer the tribal call.
- We seem to be going for maroon, blue and creamy white this year.
- The banner features the colours of the local clubs-green, gold, white and maroon.
- You can use maroon, grayish tones of pinks and whites to achieve the same results.
- It is bright maroon and has white spots all over its petals.
- My heart twisted painfully and the marble floor below me seemed to spin into an incomprehensible blur of beige and maroon.
- The schools new colours are maroon, royal blue and yellow.
- Camille was in a mostly brown and white dress, while her cousins Miranda and Riley were primarily, if not totally, in purple or maroon, respectively.
2British A firework that makes a loud bang, used as a signal or warning. Example sentencesExamples - War veterans were left fuming in the seaside town after lifeboatmen told them that they would not be able to fire maroons at the beginning and end of the silence on advice from RNLI headquarters.
- For years the start and end of the two minutes silence across the town has been signalled by the firing of a maroon - a firework-like device that produces a deafening boom.
- Originally from the north Norfolk coast, he was bought up with the tradition that when the maroons went up, the whole community downed tools and rushed to help.
- The borough council has arranged for a maroon to be fired from the main council offices, which will be followed by a minute of silence.
- It banned the supply to the public of aerial shells, aerial maroons, shells-in-mortar and maroons-in-mortar, bangers, mini-rockets and fireworks of ‘erratic flight’.
- In Manchester, a maroon was fired from the Town Hall to mark the start of the silence, and all take-offs and landings at the airport were put on hold until it was over.
- Two maroons are fired from the Lifeboat Station to alert the town's RNLI crew whenever they are required for an emergency call out - also known as a 'shout'.
- Bells burst forth into joyful chimes, maroons were exploded, bands paraded the streets followed by cheering crowds of soldiers and civilians and London generally gave itself up wholeheartedly to rejoicing.
- A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
- Celebrations start at midday, with the firing of a maroon to signal the beginning of the party.
- In Trafford, the silence was signalled by the firing of maroons at Streford, Sale, Altrincham, Urmston and Partington, where services also took place.
- Shoppers and people just passing through Victoria Square stopped what they were doing as maroons fired from the roof of the town hall marked the beginning and end of the silence.
- The crack of a maroon then broke the silence and brought the marshals forward to light the 824 torches, which a group of the town's men and boys had spent three months making.
- Many will signal the start and end of the silence by firing maroons.
- With a crowded beach the Coastguards fired a maroon to signal the run down the beach from the Inn to the sea at 11.45am.
Origin Late 17th century (in the sense 'chestnut'): from French marron 'chestnut', via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th century. The Maroons were descendants of runaway slaves who lived in the mountains and forests of Suriname and the West Indies. Their name came from French marron ‘feral’, from Spanish cimarrón ‘wild’. In the early 18th century to maroon someone became to put them down on a desolate island or coast and to leave them there, especially as a punishment. None of this has anything to do with the colour maroon, which derives from French marron ‘chestnut’. The earliest examples of maroon in English, from the late 16th century, refer to this lustrous reddish-brown nut, with the colour dating from the late 18th century. The noise of a chestnut bursting in a fire accounts for maroon as the name of a firework that makes a loud bang, often with a bright flash of light, used as a signal or warning.
Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon verb məˈruːnməˈrun [with object]Leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island. a novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island Example sentencesExamples - His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
- Here also, around 10 villages have been marooned and are being provided rations from the air.
- The emergency rations consumed, we were marooned, starving in a hostile land.
- She stumbled on to an island where she was marooned.
- On the second voyage, Sindbad is marooned on an island, but with the help of a giant bird, he is able to collect many diamonds before returning home.
- Ostensibly it is the story of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island who revert to being as savage as their forbears.
- Journalists who flew ten nautical miles up the river mouth saw between 500 and 1000 marooned people.
- The book opens with the introduction of a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island.
- He described to two children how he and a heathen landowner, out fishing, had been marooned on a rock during a storm.
- Up to eight cars broke down in the floods with residents stepping in to help marooned motorists.
- On the way to South America, the ship sinks and he is marooned on an island.
- She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort.
- When the plane's engine blows, they crash and are marooned in the middle of the tundra with only a handful of supplies.
- There were several landslides in the area, where four workers were marooned.
- A few minutes later the ship was sailing away north, knowing that they might be marooning their shipmates with them, but knowing that they had no other choice.
- As the clock inched towards midnight a storm struck the island marooning everyone there.
- Earlier this year he spoke of the irony of having so many women interested in him when he is marooned on the island.
- The only thing that had kept him from going insane when he was marooned was the beauty of the island.
- Having abandoned England she is marooned in a country with which her native country is at war.
- The life raft was spotted around three miles off the coast, and the five marooned sailors were winched to safety by the Navy aircraft.
Synonyms strand, leave stranded, cast away, cast ashore, abandon, leave behind, leave, leave in the lurch, desert, turn one's back on, leave isolated informal leave high and dry archaic forsake
Origin Early 18th century: from Maroon, originally in the form marooned 'lost in the wilds'. nounməˈruːnməˈrun A member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons. Example sentencesExamples - Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
- The first Maroons were African slaves left behind by the Spanish when the British military took Jamaica from them in 1655.
- By 1770, five thousand to six thousand Maroons or runaway slaves were living in the jungle.
- Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
- Many of the Maroons (who are descended from escaped black African slaves) have more than one wife.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French marron 'feral', from Spanish cimarrón 'wild', (as a noun) 'runaway slave'. adjectiveməˈrunməˈro͞on Of a brownish-crimson color. ornate maroon and gold wallpaper Example sentencesExamples - The walls were a dull maroon colour, and made up of hard terraplate.
- Some farmers cultivate bi-colour flowers like light yellow with maroon blotches, deep crimson-edged yellow, gold and red bicolour.
- They soon reached the main quarters, where a plump little man wearing a maroon suit was sitting and counting a pile of gold coins.
- The choir's maroon robes and gold collars shined in the sun, as they walked into the gym.
- Police say a 16-year-old girl was stopped by two men driving a maroon sedan around 12.15 pm.
- The maroon colours were engulfed in a light blue light.
- A neat maroon carpet with gold lining was on the floor.
- Walking down the path that led to the gates, a man dressed in a blue and maroon robe with gold trimming approached them.
- I love the gold silk layer under the maroon chiffon.
- She led him, silently, to a large room with maroon curtains and cherry furniture.
- The walls were painted a deep, peaceful maroon colour, and there were paintings of Italian landscapes and other things tacked to the walls.
- At the right was a living room covered with maroon wallpaper and gold moon and stars.
- The wrap colors include a multi blue, black, white, red, turquoise, purple, jade green, navy blue, gold and a maroon type of color.
- She found herself in a rather tatty entrance hallway, with new maroon flock wallpaper and, less impressively, peeling paint and worn carpeting.
- Besides the regular reddish maroon colour, there are cream pastes to leave pink, blue, violet, magenta designs on the skin.
- Her friends room was quite modern; the carpet had been dyed a rich maroon colour, the walls were plainly white and the roof painted black.
- A few rugs were place around the room, deep gold and laced with maroon edges to match the upholstery of the couch.
- I was in my maroon traveling suit with the gold trimmings and a maroon velvet hat with matching feather secure on my head.
- Mixed with other, deep maroon flowers and streaks of grey foliage plants, scarlet blooms drift through borders.
- His gaze fell upon a woman in her thirties wearing a maroon suit with a gold pin on her lapel.
nounməˈrunməˈro͞on 1A brownish-crimson color. the hat is available in either white or maroon count noun cold pinks, purples, and maroons Example sentencesExamples - My heart twisted painfully and the marble floor below me seemed to spin into an incomprehensible blur of beige and maroon.
- Anyway, very few flowers in my yard flaunt the single colours - bright yellow, soft pink, browny maroon, crimson - black - of my original sowing.
- The ones in the family room are maroon, teal and white. The hardware in the living room is gold plastic.
- The fans created a haze of maroon and white as hundreds joined together in simultaneously swirling their scarves above their heads.
- The schools new colours are maroon, royal blue and yellow.
- All roads into the town will be a sea of green and red and maroon and white as another generation answer the tribal call.
- Last Sunday was officially declared a day of no rest in Ballinrobe, as local painters and decorators coloured the town in maroon and yellow.
- Everyone looks at him as the stripes of reddish brownish maroon streak his face.
- We seem to be going for maroon, blue and creamy white this year.
- Red, maroon, yellow, blue are good colours for neckties, patterned or solid.
- She looked to be around my age with very dark brown hair that was tinted in maroon.
- The banner features the colours of the local clubs-green, gold, white and maroon.
- Camille was in a mostly brown and white dress, while her cousins Miranda and Riley were primarily, if not totally, in purple or maroon, respectively.
- They come with many different leaf colours, from maroon and cream, to copper and lime, usually with interesting variegations.
- You can use maroon, grayish tones of pinks and whites to achieve the same results.
- From my limited knowledge I also found the colour unusual - a sort of brownish maroon I would say from memory.
- A few flags waved from their poles, sporting the Institution's signature colors - maroon and white.
- It seems to be duller than usual; the grey buildings have a hint of yellow to them and the sky is a pale grey colour, infused with maroon.
- The furniture in the room was either white or maroon, Miranda's favorite colors.
- It is bright maroon and has white spots all over its petals.
2British A firework that makes a loud bang, used mainly as a signal or warning. Example sentencesExamples - A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
- Originally from the north Norfolk coast, he was bought up with the tradition that when the maroons went up, the whole community downed tools and rushed to help.
- Two maroons are fired from the Lifeboat Station to alert the town's RNLI crew whenever they are required for an emergency call out - also known as a 'shout'.
- In Manchester, a maroon was fired from the Town Hall to mark the start of the silence, and all take-offs and landings at the airport were put on hold until it was over.
- The borough council has arranged for a maroon to be fired from the main council offices, which will be followed by a minute of silence.
- For years the start and end of the two minutes silence across the town has been signalled by the firing of a maroon - a firework-like device that produces a deafening boom.
- Celebrations start at midday, with the firing of a maroon to signal the beginning of the party.
- Many will signal the start and end of the silence by firing maroons.
- In Trafford, the silence was signalled by the firing of maroons at Streford, Sale, Altrincham, Urmston and Partington, where services also took place.
- Shoppers and people just passing through Victoria Square stopped what they were doing as maroons fired from the roof of the town hall marked the beginning and end of the silence.
- The crack of a maroon then broke the silence and brought the marshals forward to light the 824 torches, which a group of the town's men and boys had spent three months making.
- It banned the supply to the public of aerial shells, aerial maroons, shells-in-mortar and maroons-in-mortar, bangers, mini-rockets and fireworks of ‘erratic flight’.
- War veterans were left fuming in the seaside town after lifeboatmen told them that they would not be able to fire maroons at the beginning and end of the silence on advice from RNLI headquarters.
- With a crowded beach the Coastguards fired a maroon to signal the run down the beach from the Inn to the sea at 11.45am.
- Bells burst forth into joyful chimes, maroons were exploded, bands paraded the streets followed by cheering crowds of soldiers and civilians and London generally gave itself up wholeheartedly to rejoicing.
Origin Late 17th century (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to color dates from the late 18th century. verbməˈrunməˈro͞on [with object]Leave (someone) trapped and isolated in an inaccessible place, especially an island. a novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island Example sentencesExamples - Earlier this year he spoke of the irony of having so many women interested in him when he is marooned on the island.
- Here also, around 10 villages have been marooned and are being provided rations from the air.
- As the clock inched towards midnight a storm struck the island marooning everyone there.
- There were several landslides in the area, where four workers were marooned.
- Up to eight cars broke down in the floods with residents stepping in to help marooned motorists.
- On the second voyage, Sindbad is marooned on an island, but with the help of a giant bird, he is able to collect many diamonds before returning home.
- Having abandoned England she is marooned in a country with which her native country is at war.
- She stumbled on to an island where she was marooned.
- The book opens with the introduction of a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island.
- The only thing that had kept him from going insane when he was marooned was the beauty of the island.
- Journalists who flew ten nautical miles up the river mouth saw between 500 and 1000 marooned people.
- The life raft was spotted around three miles off the coast, and the five marooned sailors were winched to safety by the Navy aircraft.
- Ostensibly it is the story of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island who revert to being as savage as their forbears.
- On the way to South America, the ship sinks and he is marooned on an island.
- A few minutes later the ship was sailing away north, knowing that they might be marooning their shipmates with them, but knowing that they had no other choice.
- He described to two children how he and a heathen landowner, out fishing, had been marooned on a rock during a storm.
- The emergency rations consumed, we were marooned, starving in a hostile land.
- His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
- When the plane's engine blows, they crash and are marooned in the middle of the tundra with only a handful of supplies.
- She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort.
Synonyms strand, leave stranded, cast away, cast ashore, abandon, leave behind, leave, leave in the lurch, desert, turn one's back on, leave isolated
Origin Early 18th century: from Maroon, originally in the form marooned ‘lost in the wilds’. nounməˈro͞onməˈrun A member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British settlers, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons. Example sentencesExamples - Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
- The first Maroons were African slaves left behind by the Spanish when the British military took Jamaica from them in 1655.
- Many of the Maroons (who are descended from escaped black African slaves) have more than one wife.
- By 1770, five thousand to six thousand Maroons or runaway slaves were living in the jungle.
- Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French marron ‘feral’, from Spanish cimarrón ‘wild’, (as a noun) ‘runaway slave’. |