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purple passage
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Noun1.purple passage - a passage full of ornate and flowery language
passage - a section of text; particularly a section of medium length


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When harsh strip-lights hummed over the shivering body of a new inmate, the picture impaled itself on the brain like 20 pages of purple prose couldn't.
Sometimes the purple prose includes historical errors, e.
The BIC can also inspire purple prose from him as was evident in his post-race summation.
 
 
 
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