Maroon

Maroon (US: UK: /məˈruːn/ mə-ROON, Australia: /məˈroʊn/ mə-ROHNAustralian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition (2004). Oxford University Press. ) be a brownish crimson color wey dey take ein name from de French word marron, wey dey mean chestnut.# Cambridge English Dictionary (online). "maroon is red!!!".
 Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, (1988). "A dark brown".
 Random House College Dictionary (1975). "a dark brownish". Marron sanso be one of de French translations for "brown".

Terms wey dey describe interchangeable shades, plus overlapping RGB ranges, wey dey include burgundy, claret, mulberry, den crimson.

Different dictionaries dey define maroon differently. De Cambridge English Dictionary dey define maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while ein "American Dictionary" section dey define maroon as dark brown-red. Lexico online dictionary dey define maroon as a brownish-red. Similarly, Dictionary.com dey define maroon as a dark brownish-red. De Shorter Oxford English Dictionary dey describe maroon as "a brownish-crimson anaa claret colour,"Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition while de Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply dey define am as a dark red.

Insyd de sRGB color model for additive color representation, na de web color dem call maroon be created by turning down de brightness of pure red to about one half. E sanso note dat maroon be de complement of de web color dem call teal.

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