amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

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)

It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Thou hast exchanged the frail flowers that decked thy bier for amaranthine hues and fragrance, and the brief and uncertain delights of mortal being for the eternal and perfect felicity of angels!

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

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