amaranthine
Example Sentences
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
They led the little one to amaranthine bowers, and wreathed around his temples the flowers that never fade.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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
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
A chaplet of amaranthine flowers surmounts his well earned fame.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
