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Color from the French for "chestnut"
Answer for the clue "Color from the French for "chestnut" ", 6 letters:
maroon
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Word definitions for maroon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marron \Mar*ron"\, n. [See Maroon , a.] A large chestnut. [Obs.] --Holland. A chestnut color; maroon. (Pyrotechny & Mil.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maroons (from the Latin American Spanish word cimarrón : "feral animal, fugitive, runaway") were Africans who escaped from slavery in the Americas and formed independent settlements. The term can also be applied to their descendants.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples. n. 1 An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. 2 A castaway; a person who has been marooned. v To abandon in a remote, desolate place, ...
Usage examples of maroon.
A rusting maroon pickup, loaded with boxes, bundles, and assorted junk, stood behind, preventing the Jeep from backing up.
Soon Katharine and Margery, perched on their chairs, would be marooned on islands.
The duchess wore a dark maroon undergown and a sheer black silk overgown, her jewelry equally modest.
He managed to get the whole soggy mess into the pulper without dribbling more than a few drops on his paper strewn desk or on his maroon jacket.
Vanadin, square-jawed John Emmet of the Federal Bureau of Loyalty, several TV and handie stars, Sacheverell, about eight versions of Mary herself, Jack Jones in black tights, Juno in maroon ones, Dr.
Cerryl turned and studied the largest bedchamber from the small upper hall landing-four-poster bed, with solid dark wood posts at each corner, a silk-covered chair in one corner, two matching wardrobes with a full-length wall mirror between them, two windows, each shuttered and framed with maroon silks, and a door to a bathing chamber.
Two or three male guards in maroon uniforms stood among the women gesturing them forward.
Half of them stood somewhat apart from a dozen in maroon, backed up against the side of a cubicle, truncheons held threateningly aloft.
Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.
She therefore did not object to the unrequested ascension, until a second massive tentacle folded itself gently but firmly around her midsection, collapsing her speaking tube against the slick maroon flesh of her torso.
Faced with the prospect of being marooned for weeks while repairs were made, Adams inquired about proceeding overland.
Keeper 347 has been marooned on a desert island in the middle of Battersea Park while rescuing a dog.
As Clio moved forward, she saw that the committee sat at a lone table anchoring down a maroon Persian carpet of faded splendor.
The dark maroon carpet complemented the walnut wainscot and the stark white walls.
Juan Cordova was tall, I noted, as he sat down, retying the sash of the maroon silk robe which hung loosely upon his spare frame.