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purple passage

noun

1 purple passage

A passage full of ornate and flowery language.


Moby thesaurus: adornment, asiaticism, beauties, colors, colors of rhetoric, device, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, euphuism, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, fine writing, floridity, floridness, flourish, flower, floweriness ... show more.

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