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flourish /flurˈish/ intransitive verb- To grow luxuriantly
- To thrive
- To be in full vigour
- To be prosperous
- To use copious and flowery language
- To move in fantastic patterns
- To display ostentatiously
- To play or sing ostentatious passages, or ostentatiously (music)
- To play a fanfare
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen
- To show off
- To bloom (obsolete and Scot)
transitive verb- To adorn with fantastic patterns or ornaments
- To make attractive (Shakespeare)
- To brandish in show, triumph or exuberance of spirits
noun- Showy splendour
- A figure made by a bold stroke of the pen
- The waving of a weapon or other object
- A flowery passage of words
- A showy, fantastic or highly ornamental passage of music
- A mass of blossom on a fruit tree (dialect)
- Decoration (obsolete)
ORIGIN: OFr florir, floriss-, from L flōs, flōris flower flourˈished adjective Decorated with flourishes flourˈisher noun flourˈishing adjective - Thriving
- Prosperous
- Making a flourish
flourˈishingly adverb flourˈishy adjective Full of flourishes flourishing thread noun Thread used in ornamental needlework flourish of trumpets noun - A fanfare heralding an important person or people
- Any ostentatious introduction
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