Definition of magenta
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: fuchsin
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: a deep purplish red
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Tarte released a special edition color of their already ocean-friendly Color Splash Hydrating Lipstick — a dewy magenta shade dubbed Sea Goddess.
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The installation — overlooking Evans Way Park, near the museum entrance — is massive, rectangular, and divided horizontally into three even sections: the top third, magenta; the middle, brown; and the bottom, silver.
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The magenta, based on a portrait shot, represents Gray’s life.
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The golder-than-gold highlighter, the magenta-and-orange eye-shadow palette, and the mint-green lipstick are just three examples.
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Knock Out succeeds wildly as a bulletproof flowering shrub, but the plant is stiff in its habit and the off-key magenta bloom is hard to love.
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Moreover, look at that tie—a shade of magenta rarely seen outside nuclear waste sites.
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Matt and Julie White, who are remodeling their new home in Newport Beach, Calif., have installed a 16-foot wall planted with lush kangaroo ferns and magenta-hue bromeliads in their interior courtyard with a pool.
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The colors are what everyone remembers: magenta, as previously seen in Mexico City, plus vermilion, aqua and chrome yellow.
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Origin and Etymology of magenta
Magenta, Italy
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First Known Use: 1860
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of magenta for English Language Learners
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: a bright, deep purplish-red color
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