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
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 Harding, Georgina
The charming Mrs. L——, of Illinois, was richly attired in a frock and gloves, and wore a wreath of flowers from amaranthine bowers.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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.
