Magenta

  1. Proper noun.  a town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color ''magenta'' was named.
  2. Noun.  A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
  3. Adjective.  having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

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