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From Longman Dictionary

am‧e‧thyst /ˈæmɪθɪst/ noun

[countable] a valuable purple stone used in jewellery

[uncountable] a light purple colour

Example

On display are earrings, necklaces and bracelets made from lapis, carnelian turquoise, jade, amber and amethyst

Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts

The glass is only one millimetre thick, and is pale amethyst in colour

The Romans believed the amethyst prevented drunkenness and used to drink out of goblets studded with these purple gems

We drove through undulating farmland and it was as if the light were refracted through amethyst