whatever a maroon is? MW says:
Main Entry: 1ma\ufffdroon
Pronunciation: m&-'r\ufffdn
Function: noun
Etymology: French maron, marron, modification of American Spanish cimarr\ufffdn, from cimarr\ufffdn wild, savage
Date: 1666
1 capitalized : a fugitive black slave of the West Indies and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries; also : a descendant of such a slave
2 : a person who is marooned