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maroonage

noun

Etymology

From maroon + -age, often as a calque of French marronnage.

  1. derived from cimarrón
  2. borrowed from marron
  3. suffixed as maroonage — “maroon + age”

Definitions

  1. The fact or state of being a maroon.

    • Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.
    • Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.
    • Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA