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  • noun Plural form of maroon.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maroon.

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Examples

  • They really echoed the maroons from the leaves of the tree with the foliage of the heuchera and physocarpus (not to mention the birdbath).

    Maria and Wendy beautify a Sugar Creek garden bed « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • How bout of the business, by the business, and FOR the business! ..... and the maroons from the Chamber of Cancer!

    Bad for bidness? David 2007

  • Or they might have gone into the Apennine Mountains to set up a camp of runawayswhat in later days was called a community of maroons from a Spanish word meaning living on mountaintops.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Or they might have gone into the Apennine Mountains to set up a camp of runawayswhat in later days was called a community of maroons from a Spanish word meaning living on mountaintops.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Or they might have gone into the Apennine Mountains to set up a camp of runawayswhat in later days was called a community of maroons from a Spanish word meaning living on mountaintops.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Or they might have gone into the Apennine Mountains to set up a camp of runawayswhat in later days was called a community of maroons from a Spanish word meaning living on mountaintops.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • He also organized the State of Origin competition, a best of three series pitting the "maroons," of Queensland, against the "blues" of New South Wales.

    Friday Daily Goodbye 2010

  • Meanwhile, by 1751, at least 3,000 runaway slaves lived in fierce armed farming communities of "maroons" deep in Haiti's backcountry.

    Indymedia Ireland 2010

  • Meanwhile, by 1751, at least 3,000 runaway slaves lived in fierce armed farming communities of "maroons" deep in Haiti's backcountry.

    Indymedia Ireland 2010

  • Meanwhile, by 1751, at least 3,000 runaway slaves lived in fierce armed farming communities of "maroons" deep in Haiti's backcountry.

    Indymedia Ireland paradigm shift environmental alliance 2010

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