Since the young man knew nothing about fashion, he wore his maroon shirt with a lighter red pair of pants.

The Dalai Lama will frequently wear a maroon robe due to the devotion to the earth represented by its clay color.

The painter was deciding whether to paint the room with a maroon hue or to use a lighter rosy-brown paint.

As the artist began to mix scarlet with sienna, she spread the maroon color on her canvas for the farmer’s barn.

When the maroon mascot began to bounce across the football field, the fans realized it was a rosy-brown bear.