Spectral gleam their snow-white dresses, And from loose dishevelled tresses Fall the Hyacinthine blossoms!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is Hyacinthine purple.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
His father, Eumenes, was a tax-collector, and what the leech extorted from you and your children, the son now uses to drive, clad in Hyacinthine purple, a four-horse chariot, which splashes the mire from the street into your faces as it rolls onward.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers