purple passage

purple passage
    n 1: a passage full of ornate and flowery language
    

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "purple passage":
      adornment, asiaticism, beauties, colors, colors of rhetoric,
      device, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, euphuism,
      figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech,
      fine writing, floridity, floridness, flourish, flower, floweriness,
      flowers of speech, flowery style, frill, image, imagery, lushness,
      luxuriance, manner of speaking, nonliterality, nonliteralness,
      ornament, ornamentation, purple patches, trope, turn of expression,
      way of speaking