amaranthine
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
A consciousness that strews roses in the path of youth and age—not ‘the perfume and suppliance of a moment,’ but those amaranthine flowers that exhale incense to Heaven.
From The Travellers A Tale. Designed for Young People. by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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 Arthur Davison Ficke
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
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 L. Carroll Judson
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