Maroon

Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut"),[6] itself from the Italian marrone that means both chestnut and brown (but the color maroon in Italian is granata and in French is grenat), from the medieval Greek maraon.[7]

The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.[8]

Business

• Maroon is the signature color of the Japanese private rail company, Hankyu Railway, decided by a vote of women customers in 1923.[9] In the 1990s, Hankyu planned an alternative color as it was developing new vehicles. That plan was called off following opposition by local residents.

Government

• Maroon was named as the official color of the state of Queensland, Australia, in November 2003. While the declared shade of maroon in sRGB is R=115, G=24, B=44, Queenslanders display the spirit of the state by wearing all shades of maroon at sporting and cultural events.[10]
• Maroon and gold are the official colors of the Minnesota State Patrol.

Politics

• Maroon is the color of the Dutch right-wing political party Forum for Democracy.

Military

• The distinctive maroon beret has been worn by many airborne forces around the world since 1942.[11] It is sometimes referred to as the "red beret."
• Historically maroon was the distinguishing color of the Caçadores (rifle) regiments of the Portuguese Army.

Music

• The Famous Maroon Band
• Maroon 5

Religion

• Vajrayana Buddhist monks, such as the Dalai Lama, wear maroon robes.[12]
• Maroon, along with golden yellow, is worn in the Philippines by Catholic devotees of the Black Nazarene, especially during its procession on 9 January.

School colors

Many universities, colleges, high schools and other educational institutions have maroon as one of their school colors. Popular combinations include maroon and white, maroon and grey, maroon and gold , and maroon and blue .

• Maroon and White are the official school colors of Texas A&M University.[13]
• Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of Texas State University[14]
• Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of the University of Minnesota.[15][16][17]
• Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of the Central Michigan University.
• Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of Shimer College,[18] representing Mount Carroll Seminary.[19]
• Maroon is the official school color of the University of Chicago. The school also employs light and dark gray in its official primary color palette.[20]
• Maroon and White are the official school colors of Lower Merion High School.[21]
• Maroon and White are the official school colors of Mississippi State University[22] and the name of the university's alma mater.[23]
• Maroon and White are the official school colors of Colgate University.[24]
• Maroon and White are the official school colors of Missouri State University.[25]
• Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of Arizona State University and the name of the university's fight song.
• Maroon and Orange are the official school colors of Virginia Tech.[26]
• Maroon and Blue are the official colors of Port Rex Technical High School in South Africa .
• Maroon and Forest Green are the primary and complementary institutional colors of the University of the Philippines System [27]

Sports

Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result many have received the nickname "Maroons".

• The University of Chicago Maroons have used the nickname (and the corresponding color) since a vote came at a meeting of students and faculty on May 5, 1894.[28]
• The University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons competes in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines and is based in their Diliman Campus. The moniker has been associated with their teams since the 1930s, except for a brief period in the 1960s when they were known as the Parrots.[29]
• Maroons was the official nickname of the athletic teams representing Mississippi State College, now Mississippi State University from 1932 until 1961 when it was officially changed to the Bulldogs. Bulldogs had been used as an unofficial nickname as far back as 1905.[30]
• Maroons is also the common nickname for the Queensland Rugby League team when it plays against the Blues (the New South Welshmen) in an annual competition of three games known as the State of Origin series in Australia.
• West Indies cricket team wears all maroon clothing in limited-overs cricket whilst in Test cricket, they wear maroon cricket caps.

Flags

• Maroon and white are the colors of the Flag of Qatar.

• Flag of Phoenix is maroon and white.
• The Flag of Latvia has sometimes been called maroon and white, although the officially declared colors were red and white,[31] and in 2009 were changed to carmine and white.[32]

• List of colors

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