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, amid amaranthine bowers, Where God's own glory seemed to shine, She saw, on beds of golden flowers, Her dear departed ones recline.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
His manly brow was decked with epic laurels that can never lose their amaranthine freshness whilst patriotic fire glows or history endures.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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 Charles Ebert Orr
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.—Cowper.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
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