Marron
noun1
Historical A Surinamese maroon (escaped slave).
marron
nounalso spelled MarronEtymology Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.
1
A sweet chestnut.
- ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 137:
- Related terms
- marron glacé