amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath, With scenes that glow, with images that breathe!

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

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

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

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