In a way I really hope so simply because I've always used the words interchangeably. According to the dictionary maroon is a dark combination of red and brown. Burgundy was a little more mysterious at dictionary.com offering up "grayish red-brown to dark blackish-purple color". Ok so I guess that means that they either can or can't be the same color. So I went on a search and under maroon I found this:
Burgundy looks like this:
Special thanks to Photogirl (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitkaphotogirl/4605882418/)
Creative Commons Photo from Wburris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/billburris/3754077620/)
I’m still going to be using the words interchangeably because I can’t tell the difference.
1 comment:
Hey! I actually was googling whether or not maroon and burgandy are the same and I found your blog. Now I'm going to try washing my headlights with toothpaste and I won't move until my kids are out of the house!
I sell knitted baby shoes on etsy and someone asked if I could make shoes for them in maroon. What is maroon??!!! Dark red? Dark purple? I suspected that it's a dark purply red, but that's more of a burgandy.
For years I wore the same itchy sweater on St. Patrick's Day because I thought it was green. Apparently, it's aqua which is more of a blue. I still don't see it. What the heck is aqua?!
But your pictures kind of sort of helped me (as much as a somewhat colorblind person can be helped in this situation) so thank you.
Lisa
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