amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

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

A little skiff on time's dark stream,   With silken sail and golden oar, Is floating like a fairy dream,   And pointing to some distant shore,     Where brighter bloom more fragrant flow'rs,     Perfuming amaranthine bow'rs.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley

Her bricky teeth flung far and wide, On virgin fields my London browses, The amaranthine plains are pied With nutty little bijou houses.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Softer calm than zephyr breathes Murmurs in the laurel foliage And the amaranthine wreaths: Thus in sacred stillness rested Air and wave—in such repose Slumbered nature, when from ocean Anadyomene rose.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various