amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

The charming Mrs. L——, of Illinois, was richly attired in a frock and gloves, and wore a wreath of flowers from amaranthine bowers.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

See how the angelic guards point with amaranthine wands afar, where glows, beyond the vale of tears, the Mountain of Immortal Life.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various