maroon.

1. Of a dark red with a brownish cast.

2. To leave someone isolated in a place without a practical way to depart.

3. A formerly enslaved person who escaped and lived in an independent community.

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Words that belong together

• maroon cloth
• maroon upholstery

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The maroon upholstery had faded along the seams.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative.. Noun singular maroon; plural maroons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: maroons.