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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; - so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Italian town, 15 m. W. of Milan, where Macmahon defeated a superior Austrian force in 1859.