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Magenta

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a vivid purplish-red color
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Magenta
Italian · 1859
"an Italian town name"
a town in Italy near the site of a battle, shortly after which the vivid dye was named
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magenta
English · 1860s
"a vivid pinkish-red color"
adopted directly for the newly synthesized vivid pinkish-red dye
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