amaranthine
Example Sentences
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019
Ah! is Thy love indeed A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed, Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?
From Charred Wood by Shepherd, J. Clinton
Her bricky teeth flung far and wide, On virgin fields my London browses, The amaranthine plains are pied With nutty little bijou houses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
No longer can we live without the amaranthine cup.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
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
