The word 'maroon' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that is the color of dark red or reddish brown. Example sentence: The maroon curtains in the room created a cozy ambiance.
The 'canary' yellow with green side panels somehow made an even greater sight of the brawny specimens donning Australian caps (and also provided a colourful back-drop to the underarm incident, it must be said), while powder blue, maroon, lime green and beige surely reached their zenith.
Security guards in wellies mill around a bashed-up maroon car with its doors flung open, seemingly abandoned in the arched entrance beside the isolation unit.
Little red welts pepper his legs and arms, some dulled to a waxy maroon, others just plasticky-white scar tissue.
Yes, it's that time of year when two of our better states —the blue one and the maroon one— go to war in the best way possible; by battering each other over a bladder of air in a thrice-yearly epic that, if we believe the hype, casts the likes of Homer's Iliad, Lucas Star Warss and Channel Ten's Neighbours in its shadow.
Plenty of supporters in colour, blue just edging the maroon.
It's all maroon carpets and brown wooden seats, with the feel of a saloon or a tavern, or a bad 1980s ski lodge.
Escaped slaves gathered there in the late 17th century, hiding out on the forested slopes before setting up a maroon camp.
On a night when sweat ran like rivers and Brisbane's maroon jersey was stained blood-black with it, the Broncos were overwhelmed in the forwards and pedestrian in the backs, with neither full-back-cum-five-eighth Anthony Milford or Ben Hunt able or willing to offer any improvisatory turns in an attempt to change the flow of the game.
The director, sweating profusely in a shirt that had once been maroon, explained the scenario.
Today, he turns up at the Guardian in check shirt, brown tie, beige jacket and maroon trousers, carrying a briefcase and a few extra pounds – he looks more like a salesman than a former footballer.
Diplomats then spent four years dismissing maroon ("too mundane", according to a report at the time) and then purple before reaching a wine-coloured consensus in 1981.Even that met only grudging acceptance.
