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

We are not in a hurry, because the crown we are seeking is amaranthine, unfading.

From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.

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

Illy hid; for every spring the amaranthine and celestial flower gained on the mortal household herb; for every autumn the catnip died, but never an autumn made the amaranth to wane.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman