purple prose

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Определение purple prose в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work

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.

Расстановка переносов

pur·ple prose

Турецкое произношение

pırpıl prōz

Произношение

/ˈpərpəl ˈprōz/ /ˈpɜrpəl ˈproʊz/

Этимология

[ 'p&r-p&l ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English purpel, alteration of purper, from Old English purpuran of purple, genitive of purpure purple color, from Latin purpura, from Greek porphyra.