magenta Definition

magenta
adj

1. Dark, purplish-red in colour.

noun magentas

1. A purplish-red colour.
2. An aniline dye of this colour.
3. fuchsine.

Etymology: 1860s: named after Magenta, an Italian town which in 1859 (shortly before the discovery of this blood-red dye) was the scene of a bloody battle.