amaranthine
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
There, amid amaranthine bowers, Where God's own glory seemed to shine, She saw, on beds of golden flowers, Her dear departed ones recline.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
His manly brow was decked with epic laurels that can never lose their amaranthine freshness whilst patriotic fire glows or history endures.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath, With scenes that glow, with images that breathe!
From Poems by Samuel Rogers
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
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