What is the meaning of Magenta?

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.
  • A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I.

adjective

  • Of deep purplish red. .
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