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magenta
/məˈd͡ʒɛntə/
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What does magenta mean?
noun
- A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
adjective
- Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
proper noun
- A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.
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proper noun
- A commune in Marne department, Grand Est, France, named after the Battle of Magenta.
- A coastal locality in Central Coast council area, New South Wales, Australia.
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/məˈd͡ʒɛntə/
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In color it was a rich magenta, and the skirt was elaborately braided with black cable-cord.
The evening had cleared, and the east was tender with a magenta flush under which the land lay still and rich.
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‘Mother, the little girl in my story wears a magenta frock and a white pinafore.’
Mr. Tegetmeier, at my request, stained some of his birds with magenta, but they were not much noticed by the others.
The flowers are, moreover, not very showy, at least when compared with some of the newer forms, being dull magenta, and rather lax of habit.