amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

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

Softer calm than zephyr breathes Murmurs in the laurel foliage And the amaranthine wreaths: Thus in sacred stillness rested Air and wave—in such repose Slumbered nature, when from ocean Anadyomene rose.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

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.

A little skiff on time's dark stream,   With silken sail and golden oar, Is floating like a fairy dream,   And pointing to some distant shore,     Where brighter bloom more fragrant flow'rs,     Perfuming amaranthine bow'rs.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley