'purple passage' definitions:
Definition of 'purple passage'
From: WordNet
noun
A passage full of ornate and flowery language
Synonyms of 'purple passage'
From: 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,
- 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