Purple prose or a purple patch is a piece of writing that contains very elaborate language or images. passages of purple prose describing intense experiences. a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue (purpura, from porphyra type of shellfish from which purple coloring was obtained)
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"