amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

She settled herself on a wide divan covered with a Bokhara carpet of faded amaranthine hues on which languished great cushions embroidered with spreading palms of dull gold.

From The Child of Pleasure by Harding, Georgina

It is a paradise of secret peace, A glorious land of amaranthine bloom; Where happiness, having fled the world, now dwells In shining gladness.

From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

But Love is the elastic, all-embracing band, which, wreathed with amaranthine flowers, endures when time shall be no more!

From Aunt Mary by Perring, Mrs.