purple prose

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von purple prose im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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.

Silbentrennung

pur·ple prose

Türkische aussprache

pırpıl prōz

Aussprache

/ˈpərpəl ˈprōz/ /ˈpɜrpəl ˈproʊz/

Etymologie

[ '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.