amaranthine
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019
At the bottom of this dell the flowers have an amaranthine bloom.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r
It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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