purple prose

These user-created lists contain the word ‘purple prose’.

• I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.

  List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...

  black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...

• P is for Porch Dog

  My P Words

  paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...

• sionnach's Words

  contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...

• botello360's list

  ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...

• chromatic phrases

  blue movie, brown study, purple prose, rosy scenario, golden mean, eminence grise, white nights, bronze age, silver bullet, orange juice, black death, technicolor yawn and 188 more...

• technomom's Words

  misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...

• tuatara's Words

  wonky, purple prose, arabesque, kismet, tuatara, flotilla, coprolite, succor, thanatopsis, wedgie, hairball, brae and 1 more...

• cydonian's Words

  schadenfreude, epicaricacy, mudita, fecundity, ruba'i, chaupai, hoi polloi, bandicoot, terpsichorean, comestibles, electrophotomicro..., panspermia and 69 more...