What did Poe mean when he described Ligeia's hair as "hyacinthine"? He had previously described her hair color as "raven-black", so obviously the "gold" definition doesn't fit here. But how did this word come to mean both blueish purple in non-hair contexts and gold in hair contexts??
#etymology #Poe #Ligeia

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"There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion."

- Bacon, Lord Verulam
- #Ligeia (1838)
- Edgar Allan #Poe