purple patch

noun

Also calledpurple passage a section in a piece of writing characterized by rich, fanciful, or ornate language
slang.
a period of success, good fortune, etc

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The chronic bed-sore begins as a dusky reddish purple patch, which gradually becomes darker till it is almost black.

It is a fine chapter, and the page with which it opens is the worst in the book—a solitary purple patch of "fine writing."

The description of them is simply a purple patch of fine writing.

A minute afterwards, the purple patch suddenly appeared from a shop and almost collided with her.

Then the purple patch vanished into a shop, and Miss Mapp, all smiles and poppies, went with her basket up the street.

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