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词组 a purple patch
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a purple patch an ornate or elaborate passage in a literary composition.

☞ This term is a translation of Latin purpureus pannus, and comes from the Roman poet Horace's Ars Poetica: 'Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide'.

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