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1 a purple patch
книжн.1) лучшее место ( в литературном произведении) [этим. лат. pannus purpureus; выражение впервые употр. Горацием в книге ‘Ars Poetica’]His morality is not in purple patches... but woven in through the very texture of the stuff. (M. Edgeworth, ‘Helen’, ch. 12) — Высокие нравственные идеалы Вальтера Скотта звучали не только с его лучших страниц, ими проникнуто все повествование.
2) произведение, отличающееся выспренностью стиляHis prime belonged to a period when the purple patch was in vogue, and there are descriptive passages in his works that have found their way into all the anthologies of English prose. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Cakes and Ale’, ch. XI) — Расцвет творчества Эдуарда Дриффилда относится к тому периоду, когда в моде был изысканный орнаментальный стиль; некоторые его описания вошли в антологии английской прозы.
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2 PIMP
1) Американизм: Pharmaceutical Industry's Main Pusher3) Военный термин: Paper In My Pocket, People Inflicting Much Pain, project for improvement of management practices4) Шутливое выражение: Pee In My Pants, Penguin In My Pocket, Pleasureful In Many Positions, Posing Is My Priority, Positive Intellectual Motivated Person, Prostitute In Many Places, Prostitutes In My Possession, Purple International Motorized Power5) Грубое выражение: Peeing In My Pants, Pissed In My Pants, Powerless Idiot Missing The Point, Puerile Insignificant Masturbatory Prose, Push In My Penis, pussy is my pleasure6) Текстиль: Player In Massive Proportions7) Фирменный знак: Porter Inc Machine Parts, Prolific Ink Media And Publishing8) Деловая лексика: Positive Intellectual Motivated People9) Образование: Public Intellectual with Moral Principles10) Чат: Pretty Impressive Male Person11) Программное обеспечение: Personalised Infotainment Management Program12) Хобби: Pu-nani is most pleasurable13) СМС: Put In My Pocket -
3 pimp
1) Американизм: Pharmaceutical Industry's Main Pusher3) Военный термин: Paper In My Pocket, People Inflicting Much Pain, project for improvement of management practices4) Шутливое выражение: Pee In My Pants, Penguin In My Pocket, Pleasureful In Many Positions, Posing Is My Priority, Positive Intellectual Motivated Person, Prostitute In Many Places, Prostitutes In My Possession, Purple International Motorized Power5) Грубое выражение: Peeing In My Pants, Pissed In My Pants, Powerless Idiot Missing The Point, Puerile Insignificant Masturbatory Prose, Push In My Penis, pussy is my pleasure6) Текстиль: Player In Massive Proportions7) Фирменный знак: Porter Inc Machine Parts, Prolific Ink Media And Publishing8) Деловая лексика: Positive Intellectual Motivated People9) Образование: Public Intellectual with Moral Principles10) Чат: Pretty Impressive Male Person11) Программное обеспечение: Personalised Infotainment Management Program12) Хобби: Pu-nani is most pleasurable13) СМС: Put In My Pocket -
4 rhetorical
1. a риторическийrhetorical effort — речь, построенная по всем правилам ораторского искусства
rhetorical colours — тропы, риторические фигуры
2. a напыщенный, высокопарныйСинонимический ряд:1. aureate (adj.) aureate; declamatory; eloquent; euphuistic; florid; flowery; grandiloquent; highfalutin; high-flown; magniloquent; oratorical; orotund; overblown; pompous; purple; sonorous; stilted; swelling; swollen; tumescent; tumid; turgid; verbose2. bombastic (adj.) bombastic; flamboyant; pretentious3. elocutionary (adj.) elocutionary; expressive; stylistic
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