Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made or consisting of hyacinth; resembling hyacinth in color or odor.
- Very beautiful or attractive: in allusion to Hyacinthus, a youth fabled to have been loved by Apollo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a
yellowish colour , as in yellowzircon .
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Examples
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Both have proposed an originally perfect being with hyacinthine locks, from whose type all the subsequent humans are degradations physical and moral.
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But I SURE AS HELL want to see the lovely auburn, hyacinthine Judith replete with pineapple, a la CARMEN MIRANDA
Perfume Review: Histoires de Parfums 1804 George Sand Marina Geigert 2008
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So saying, he made the king turn round, and I contemplated his hyacinthine locks, and gently stroked them.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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So saying, he made the king turn round, and I contemplated his hyacinthine locks, and gently stroked them.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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So saying, he made the king turn round, and I contemplated his hyacinthine locks, and gently stroked them.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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“Faces pale as the primrose with hyacinthine locks” are in our eyes; the woods of Tuderly breathe their mystic voices in our ears.
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It was soon done, and the dark hyacinthine curves fell on her neck.
Adam Bede 2004
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Watts painted Swinburne with a halo of hair; but Swinburne was bald before most of his last American or Australian admirers had heard of his hyacinthine locks.
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The night was alive with thaw; it was so nearly warm that a breeze drifting low along the sidewalk brought to Anthony a vision of an unhoped-for hyacinthine spring.
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Watts painted Swinburne with a halo of hair; but Swinburne was bald before most of his last American or Australian admirers had heard of his hyacinthine locks.
knitandpurl commented on the word hyacinthine
"Gradually, however, as the performance went on, their vaguely human forms detached themselves languidly one after the other from the depths of the night which they embroidered, and, raising themselves toward the light, allowed their half-naked bodies to emerge into the chiaroscuro of the surface where their gleaming faces appeared behind the playful, frothy undulations of their ostrich-feather fans, beneath their hyacinthine, pearl-studded headdresses which seemed to bend with the motion of the waves."
--The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 44 of the Modern Library paperback edition
July 17, 2008
yarb commented on the word hyacinthine
...a frantic homing seaplane was flying soundlessly, like a bird with long shoes, into a patch of hyacinthine sky in the west...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word hyacinthine
The hyacinthine boy for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom
.--Inscription on the gravestone of Ralph Waldo Emerson's son Waldo.
(The back side of the marker is inscribed
Ah me! It was my childhood's thought
If He should make my web a blot
On life's fair picture of delight
My heart's content would find it right
.)December 24, 2011