hyacinthine

• The company of children were clad in pure and glistering white, but the Latin, which is verbally followed by the French, gives the colour of the young men's garments as hyacinthine, and that of the elders' as purple. —  Brendan's Fabulous Voyage A Lecture delivered on January 19, 1893, before the Scottish Society of Literature and Art
• Imagine the body of a Lincoln, the hands of a woman, the jaw and mouth of Disraeli, an aristocratic nose, unpleasant eyes, and then that shock of yellow hair--hyacinthine--the curly locks of an insane virtuoso or a baby prodigy Who is that?" —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
• Accursed ground Henceforward I hold thy flower-enamelled shore O hyacinthine isle! —  Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
• As for the hyacinthine purple cloak, I wear it because I like it. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
• Accursed ground Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore O hyacinthine isle! —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

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