Hyacinthine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hyacinthine is an adjective meaning Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
Meaning
Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
More Meanings
- Curling like the petals of the hyacinth.
- Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus.
Example Sentences
The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
[…] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include macaw, hyacinthlike, incarnadine, headed, auricomous, xanthous.
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