maroon lake

English

Noun

maroon lake (countable and uncountable, plural maroon lakes)

1. A lake pigment prepared from madder, distinguished for its transparency and the depth and durability of its colour.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “maroon lake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)