I was reading a novel where a girl is talking about her friend who is another
girl and someone says uses this phrase : のろけ話

Which I know translates to mean to speak fondly of significant other, but
these girls are described as being just good friends in the novel. So I was
wondering, can this be used to show extreme closeness/admiration between
platonic friends or is it mean to maybe imply that one person likes the other?
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Can のろけ話 be used in a platonic sense to refer to closeness amongst female friends?
Usually not. In that context she is most likely teasing the other that she and
her friend is as "lovey-dovey" as the real lovers.

のろける means "to brag about one's lover", but people often use it too when the
speaker's inner love toward the lover is unconcealed even though s/he has no
such intention. This word is not really for ordinary friends.
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