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 only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.
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No longer can we live without the amaranthine cup.
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At the bottom of this dell the flowers have an amaranthine bloom.
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They led the little one to amaranthine bowers, and wreathed around his temples the flowers that never fade.
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