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Igel

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9. Maroon? Apparently a new meaning for me.
Sat Aug 24, 2024, 10:32 AM
Aug 2024

The one I'm used to, apart from the color and verb, is usually the second one of these two:

maroon

1 a person who is marooned
2 maroon or Maroon : a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person
Wherever Africans were enslaved in the world, there were runaways who escaped permanently and lived in free independent settlements. These people and their descendants are known as "maroons."
—Richard Grant
From the late 17th century to the end of the [U.S.] Civil War, thousands of maroons—runaways who obtained their freedom by occupying remote and uninhabited regions—lived in relative secrecy throughout the 750-square-mile wilderness.
—Lex Pryor
especially, usually Maroon : a maroon of the West Indies or Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries or a descendant of such a person


Somehow, RFKJ doesn't fit either of those definitions.

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