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Definition of Flourishes

Flourishes
Flourish Flour"ish, n.; pl. Flourishes. 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic] The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. --Howell. 2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. --Crashaw. 3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue. --Dryden. 4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. --Boyle. 5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! --Shak. 6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

Meaning of Flourishes from wikipedia

- Look up flourish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flourish may refer to: Flourish (film), a 2006 comedic thriller Flourish (fanfare), a ceremonial...
- Flourishing, or human flourishing, is the complete goodness of humans in a developmental life-span, that somehow includes positive psychological functioning...
- Four ruffles and flourishes pla**** before "Hail Columbia" U.S. military band playing ruffles and flourishes being before a performance of "Hail Columbia"...
- Flourished Peony (Chinese: 国色芳华) is a Chinese historical romantic drama television series that premiered on Mango TV in China on 7 January 2025. The series...
- The Flourish is a 2019 American short film directed by Shannon Taylor from a screenplay by Brit Taylor. It stars Faithe Herman, Mark Christopher Lawrence...
- FLOR-u-it; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been...
- A flourish of approval or krul ("curl") is a mostly Dutch symbol used for grading schoolwork or to show that one has seen and agreed with a paragraph....
- mani****ting coins in skillful flourishes, usually on or around the hands. Although not always considered coin magic, the flourishes are sometimes used in magic...
- /ˈθeɪliə/; Ancient Gr****: Θάλεια; "the joyous, the flourishing", from Ancient Gr****: θάλλειν, thállein; "to flourish, to be verdant"), also spelled Thaleia, was...
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