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
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
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
See how the angelic guards point with amaranthine wands afar, where glows, beyond the vale of tears, the Mountain of Immortal Life.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.—Cowper.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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