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What does hyacinthine mean?

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Adjective
  1. The colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
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The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
By Harold Lewis Cook The New Yorker, May 13, 1933 P. 18Erect from the bulbs the hyacinthine, bold View Article By Andy Borowitz By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By Larissa MacFarquhar.
As for the hyacinthine purple cloak, I wear it because I like it.
By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.
On his head he wore a petasus of hyacinthine hue, out of which sprang three peacock's feathers.
There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.

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