magenta

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Synonyms for magenta

noun blue and red colors mixed together

red

noun. color of blood; shade resembling such a color

redder

noun. color of blood; shade resembling such a color

Word Origin & History

1860, in honor of the Battle of Magenta in Italy, where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in 1859, which advanced the cause of Italian independence and fired the imagination of European liberals. The brilliant crimson aniline dye was discovered shortly after the battle. The town's name traces back to Roman general and emperor Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius (d.312), who supposedly had a headquarters here.

Example Sentences for magenta

Well, whether I paper or whether I don't, I've got some thoughts of a magenta sofy.

Why have the fields of Magenta and Solferino been piled with the corpses of dying heroes?

Nevertheless, for Savile, she came downstairs in a magenta wrapper.

All the same the magenta colour and the nine times nine did have their effect.

Ladies and gentlemen, again we bid you welcome to Magenta House.

Their colour got on his nerves—magenta, crimson; magenta, crimson.

I will give you a handsome present if you will never say Magenta to me again.

I thought you were in the hospital five weeks after Magenta.

This time it was to Italy, to Magenta, that they were ordered.

The corolla is lilac or bluish, often with a magenta tube and magenta "eye."

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Synonyms for magenta

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