amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

No Christian life is broken short off so, but rises in a symmetrical shaft, and its capital is garlanded with amaranthine flowers in heaven.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

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