an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
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an artificial prose style of the Elizabethan period, marked by extreme use of antithesis, alliteration, and extended similes and allusions (伊丽莎白时期)华饰文体
The process began with Antonia Guevara, authorof El Libro Aureo, from which, according to some, the Englishform of the diseaseknown as Euphuismwas derived.