amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

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

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 Judson, L. Carroll

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)

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

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton