purple proseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from a reference by the Roman poet Horace.

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purple prose (uncountable)

1. Extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work.

   Coordinate term: beige prose

   • 1932, Harry T. Baker, “Hazlitt as a Shakespearean Critic”, in PMLA, volume 47, number 1, page 198:

     Swinburne is often a very discerning critic in spite of his penchant for purple prose.

   • 1960 October 24, “Book of Lamentations”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 13 April 2008, (review of The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart):

     His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart.

   • 1991, “Unbelievable”, in Schubert Dip, performed by EMF:

     The things, you say / Your purple prose just gives you away / The things, you say / You're unbelievable

   • 2004, Joan Huber, “Lenski Effects on Sex Stratification Theory”, in Sociological Theory, volume 22, number 2, page 261:

     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.

関連する語

• mandarin (adjective)
• purple patch

参照

Further reading

• purple prose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “purple prose”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.