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| Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791. | |||
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| Like cabbage, maroon is quite tasty in any number of dishes, including the famous Micronesian maroon stew. When sauted with lowfat butter, maroon is also known to contain small amounts of a hallucinagenic compound, making it illegal in most of North America and Europe. | |||
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| Maroon is the principal school color of both Boston College and The University of Chicago. The daily newspaper at Chicago is called The Maroon as are its athletic teams, while Boston College teams, officially the Eagles, are affectionately known as the Maroon & Gold. | |||
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Maroon is a relative of the common cabbage which is found in southeastern Ukraine. It was a staple of the Ukranian economy until 1892, when huge wild maroon fields were discovered in Micronesia. The small island nation immediately replaced Ukraine as the world's number one provider of maroon, a change which has forced Ukraine to rely on its second largest export, pygmie shrew pelts.
Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791.
Uses Maroon is the principal school color of both Boston College and The University of Chicago. The daily newspaper at Chicago is called The Maroon as are its athletic teams, while Boston College teams, officially the Eagles, are affectionately known as the Maroon & Gold.