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
The waters ripple around it With soft and luminous motion, Strewing the silvery sands With shells amaranthine, and flowers Borne from amid the white coral stems, Like off'rings of peace from the ocean.
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
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)
Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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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