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A showy array (of words).
An elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition; = purple passage n. at purple, adj. n.compounds 1b(c). Also in extended use in…
U.S. A display of rhetoric; a piece of fine writing verging on bombast.
an elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition.