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Maroon(a member of ethnic groups in the Americas descended from Africans who escaped slavery and established free communities; (Suriname) a member of a major Afro-Surinamese ethnic group that consists of several tribes and is based mostly in the hinterland; (historical) escaped slave)
1934, Anton de Kom, Wij slaven van Suriname [We Slaves of Suriname], Amsterdam: Contact, page 104:
Bij de overrompeling van een der laatste benden werden twintig Marrons gedood, waaronder Bonni, Cormantijn, Codjo en Paedje. Zij behoorden tot het gespuis, zooals destijds de blanken de Marrons noemden, maar voor ons zijn en blijven zij helden, Surinamers die hun waardigheid van aanvoerders door dapperheid en deugd verworven hadden, vechters voor de rechten en vrijheid der Surinaamsche slaven.
When one of the last gangs was ambushed, twenty Maroons were killed, including Bonni, Cormantijn, Codjo, and Paedje. They were part of the rabble, as the whites used to call the Maroons at the time, but to us they are and will always be heroes, Surinamese who had earned their status as leaders through bravery and virtue, fighters for the rights and freedom of the Surinamese slaves.
2017 November 3, Euritha Tjan A Way, “Internationaal bundelen [Uniting internationally]”, in De Ware Tijd, archived from the original on 9 July 2021:
Het is 10 oktober, de dag waarop marrons vieren dat er in 1760 vrede is afgedwongen van de koloniale overheersers.
It's 10 October, the day Maroons celebrate that peace was exacted from the colonial oppressors in 1760.
This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun. Compared to brun, marron is slightly depreciative.
Like most colors that take their name from animals and plants, the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.
