Definition of "amethystine" []

• Like amethyst, especially when referring to colour. (adjective)

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• "He flashes out emeralds and rubies, amethystine flames and sapphirine colours, in"
• "From it dropped curtains, shimmering, nebulous as the marching folds of the aurora; they poured, cascaded, from the amethystine band."
• "All of half a mile in diameter was this shaft, and ringed regularly along its height by wide amethystine bands — like rings of a hollow piston."