maroon
suomi-englanti sanakirjamaroon englannista suomeksi
jättää asumattomalle saarelle
kastanjanruskea
hätäraketti
punaruskea
jättää rannalle
haaksirikkoutunut
maroon englanniksi
An escaped black of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. (defdate)
(quote-text)|title=The Serpent and the Rainbow|page=193|publisher=Simon & Schuster
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Kevin Filan|title=The Haitian Vodou Handbook|publisher=Destiny Books|page=14
A castaway; a person who has been marooned. (defdate)
(syn)
Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
{{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Cynthia James|title=The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English Across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries|publisher=Heinemann Educational Books
(quote-journal)
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Brogan Steele|title=From the Jaws of Death: Extreme True Adventures of Man vs. Nature|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=9781429950114|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=pRQsO5OVLTcC&lpg=PA231&dq=%22marooned%22&hl=de&pg=PA231v=onepage|page=231
(color panel)
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Ben Long|title=The Nikon D90 Companion: Practical Photography Advice You Can Take Anywhere|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=9780596555665|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=3ukYp2HE9KQC&lpg=PA176&dq=%22a%20maroon%22&hl=de&pg=PA176v=onepage|page=176
Of a maroon color
A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an raid).
(quote-journal) purchased a firework called a “maroon”, which is a bomb consisting of a small ball of string covered with a red composition. It is loaded with gunpowder, and there is also a fuse attached.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Shaw Too True) (..) And now I am off to inspect stores. There is a shortage of maroons that I don't understand. / (smallcaps). What a pity! I love maroons. They have such nice ones at that confectioner's near the Place Vendôme. / (smallcaps). Oh, youre thinking of marrons glacés. No: maroons are fireworks: things that go off with a bang. For signalling.
(RQ:Wells Shape) were much more dreadful than the air raids of the World War. They began with a nightmare of warning maroons, sirens, hooters and the shrill whistles of cyclist scouts, then swarms of frantic people running to and fro, (..)
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=S. Watts Taylor|title=Tarnish|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jqn8HMZTeRIC&pg=PA21|page=21|publisher=iUniverse|year_published=2011|isbn=9781462002023