amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

And quickly flew the winged hours; Love seem to wreath his fairy chain Of blooming amaranthine flow'rs.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 by Various

He still stalks through the popular imagination with his Spanish hat and cloak, his amaranthine locks, his finely-frenzied eyes, and his Alastor-like forgetfulness of his meals.

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard

Illy hid; for every spring the amaranthine and celestial flower gained on the mortal household herb; for every autumn the catnip died, but never an autumn made the amaranth to wane.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The waters ripple around it With soft and luminous motion, Strewing the silvery sands With shells amaranthine, and flowers Borne from amid the white coral stems, Like off'rings of peace from the ocean.

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard