purple passage

purple passage
Synonyms and related words:
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, flowers of speech, flowery style, frill, image, imagery, lushness, luxuriance, manner of speaking, nonliterality, nonliteralness, ornament, ornamentation, purple patches, trope, turn of expression, way of speaking

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  • purple — /ˈpɜpəl / (say perpuhl) noun 1. any colour having components of both red and blue, especially a dark shade of such a colour. 2. (historically) a shade of crimson obtained using a dye from a mollusc; associated with emperors, royalty, etc. 3.… …  

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