| 单词 | purple passage |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple passage purple passage n. [after classical Latin purpureus pannus (see purple patch n.)] an elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > ornate passage flaunt-tant1661 purple patch?1704 squirt1872 purple passage1882 1882 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 211/2 The book is..marked by great reserve and quietness of tone... There is not a ‘purple passage’ in all the two volumes. 1895 E. Gosse in Cent. Mag. July 451/2 Emphasizing the purpler passages with lifted voice and gesticulating finger. 1937 Discovery Oct. 326/2 Mrs. Johnson says little about herself, indulges in no purple passages, and without the conscious effort of the raconteur she manages to introduce many good stories. 2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads v. 197 One of her purple passages reads: ‘The doctrine of Mr. Darwin is the rational revelation of progress, pitting itself in its logical antagonism with the irrational revelation of the fall’. < as lemmas |
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