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Magenta, Battle of Magenta | a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I | |
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magenta | of deep purplish red | |
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magenta, fuchsia, fuchsine | a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta |