MAROON

maroon. Maroon, n. a free black living on the hills in the W. Indies

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Ma‐roon″ (?), n. [Written also marroon.] [[F. marron, abbrev. fr. Sp. cimarron wild, unruly, from cima the summit of a mountain; hence, negro cimarron a runaway negro that lives in the mountains.]] In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.