hyacinthine

comparative more hyacinthine · superlative most hyacinthine

1. Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).

   The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.

   1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

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   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:

   1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book IV, lines 300-303

   […] 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.

   1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days, page 191

2. Curling like the petals of the hyacinth.
3. Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus.