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		seydor on Oct 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scro... purple was the color of nobility and rather rare. It might be the description of a king or a room or roman fashion items.

riffraff on Oct 12, 2023 [–]

Or a complaint about bad writers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose

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