extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work

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Definition of extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work in English English dictionary

purple prose

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.

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ex·tra·va·gant or flow·e·ry writing, es·pe·cial·ly in a lit·e·ra·ry work