amaranthine
Americanadjective
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of or like the amaranth.
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unfading; everlasting.
a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
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of purplish-red color.
adjective
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of a dark reddish-purple colour
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of or resembling the amaranth
Etymology
Origin of 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
It is a paradise of secret peace, A glorious land of amaranthine bloom; Where happiness, having fled the world, now dwells In shining gladness.
From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison
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
It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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