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  • 21purple — noun (U) 1 a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue 2 purple with rage/purple in the face etc very red in the face as a result of being angry or embarrassed 3 purple passage/prose/patch a piece of writing that has a grander style 4 born to …

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  • 22purple — adj., noun ADVERB ▪ almost ▪ slightly ADJECTIVE ▪ bright, vivid ▪ dark, deep …

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  • 23(a) purple passage — a purple passage purple prose phrase a piece of writing that is written in a very emotional or complicated style Thesaurus: parts of pieces of writingmeronym documents and types of documenthyponym Main entry: purple …

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  • 24a purple passage — or purple prose a piece of writing that is written in a very emotional or complicated style …

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  • 25The Color Purple — For other uses, see The Color Purple (disambiguation). The Color Purple   …

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  • 27Description — For other uses, see Description (disambiguation). Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms… …

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  • 28Bananas (album) — Bananas Studio album by Deep Purple Released September 9, 2003 …

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  • 29Olivier Zahm — (born September 1963) is the founder and owner of the French fashion and culture magazine Purple. Career Olivier Zahm worked as a freelance arts journalist contributing to Artforum, Flash Art, Art Press and Texte Zur Kunst during the 1980s and… …

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  • 30Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest — The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue in cheek contest that takes place annually and is sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California. Entrants are invited to compose the opening sentence… …

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