A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, 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.
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"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"
"a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I"