amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

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.

Faith, amaranthine flower of, 662. for modes of, 663. has centre everywhere, 661. if, produce no works, 660. saddest thing, to lose, 571.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

There in amaranthine glory I will sit at Jesus' feet; There I'll sing the sweet old story As I walk the golden street.

From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert

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 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)