amaranthine
Example Sentences
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
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 William Holmes McGuffey
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
Ah! is Thy love indeed A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed, Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?
From Charred Wood by J. Clinton Shepherd
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 Georgina Harding
