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maroonage en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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