marooned

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maroon1

▶noun

• 1 a dark brownish-red colour.

• 2 chiefly Brit. a firework that makes a loud bang, used as a signal or warning.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from Fr. marron ‘chestnut’; sense 2 is so named because the firework makes the noise of a chestnut bursting in the fire.

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maroon2

▶verb abandon (someone) alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island.

– origin C18: from Maroon.

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Maroon/məˈruːn/

▶noun a member of various communities living in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, originally descended from escaped slaves.

– origin C17: from Fr. marron meaning ‘feral’, from Sp. cimarrón ‘runaway slave’.