maroonage

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

maroonage (uncountable)

  1. The fact or state of being a maroon.
    • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 64:
      Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194:
      Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.
    • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 84:
      Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.