amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

Shall the patriots and soldiers of '76, the "Immortal Band," as history styles them, meet again in the amaranthine bowers of spotless purity, of perfect bliss, of eternal glory?

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

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

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

But Love is the elastic, all-embracing band, which, wreathed with amaranthine flowers, endures when time shall be no more!

From Aunt Mary by Perring, Mrs.

Brothers and sisters, a happy band, Await thee in the spirit land; Bright amaranthine crowns they wear; They long to greet their Ella there.

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