purple passage

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   a passage full of ornate and flowery language

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Questions about purple passage

What does purple passage mean?

purple passage means "a passage full of ornate and flowery language".

Is purple passage a common word?

purple passage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.