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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun purple passage has 1 sense

• purple passage(n = noun.communication) Array - a passage full of ornate and flowery language; Array
is a kind of passage

THESAURUS

purple passage

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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