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Substantiivi

  1. Extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work.

Esimerkit

  • Swinburne is often a very discerning critic in spite of his penchant for purple prose.
  • His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart.
  • An antibiological bias . . . was stimulated by a flood of popular and scholarly books in the 1960s and 1970s (some awash in deep purple prose) saying that male domination was natural and inevitable.