celery<p>What did Poe mean when he described Ligeia&#39;s hair as &quot;hyacinthine&quot;? He had previously described her hair color as &quot;raven-black&quot;, so obviously the &quot;gold&quot; definition doesn&#39;t fit here. But how did this word come to mean both blueish purple in non-hair contexts and gold in hair contexts??<br /><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Poe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poe</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Ligeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ligeia</span></a></p>