Magenta

[mə'dʒentə] or [mə'dʒɛntə]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I.

(noun.) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.

(adj.) of deep purplish red .

埃米尔校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.

汉弗莱手打

解釋/意思:

n. a colour between pink and red.

凯思琳校對