"purple patch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017 May 14, Phil Mongredien, “Paul Weller: A Kind Revolution review – rich in warmth and optimism”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
          "text": "Paul Weller has been in a relentlessly innovative purple patch since 2008’s 22 Dreams, which is still surprising given the workmanlike nature of his previous decade’s output.",
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          "ref": "2017 May 18, Rachel Aroesti, “Stevie Parker: The Cure review – an icily restrained pop debut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "This icy, strangely monochrome-sounding take on pop is enjoying a purple patch, and Stevie Parker is the latest to throw her tasteful and understated hat in the ring.",
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          "ref": "2021 September 6, Kieran Pender, “Jack Haig defies odds to continue Grand Tour purple patch for Australian cyclists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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          "text": "The poet had continually to be performing acrobatic feats, now of rhetoric or epigram, now of learning, or again in the description of blood-curdling horrors, monstrous deaths and prodigious sorceries. Each work was overloaded with sententiae and purple patches.",
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          "text": "Utterly lacking in reverence for great thinkers, he dismissed the finest passages of poetry or prose from his consideration with light scorn as \"purple patches,\" borrowing that hackneyed phrase from the lower walks of the press[…]",
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        "(originally) An ornate or elaborate section of a written work; a patch of purple prose."
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