noun

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A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

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With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.

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An ornamentation.

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His signature ended with a flourish.

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A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

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The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.

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A decorative embellishment on a building.

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To thrive or grow well.

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The barley flourished in the warm weather.

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To prosper or fare well.

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The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.

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To be in a period of greatest influence.

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His writing flourished before the war.

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To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

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To make bold, sweeping movements with.

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They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.

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To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

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To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.

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To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

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To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

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To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

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To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Examples of flourish in a Sentence

He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to laugh.

The city continued to flourish under the Romans, who made it a colony, with the name Colonia Victrix Julia Nova Carthago.

Many industries flourish on the outskirts of the town, including rope and net manufactures, flour mills, saw mills, mining railways, paper mills.

He signed the paper with a flourish and returned the pen to its elaborate bronze holder.

Was it some kind of rhetorical flourish, just words that sounded good?

While maize thrives in every part of the country, wheat, barley and oats - cultivated by the white farmers - flourish only in the midlands and uplands.

Under Charlemagne, whose principal residence was in Aix-la-Chapelle, the culture of the Rhine valley again began to flourish, its results being still to be traced in the important architectural remains of this period.

This was not merely an idle flourish, for some of his charters are signed by Welsh and Scottish kings as subreguli.

In spite of the check to their trade received from the emperor Manuel in 1171, Venetian commerce continued to flourish, the Venetian fleet to grow and the Venetians to amass wealth.

In 1607 the first lasting settlement was made in Virginia, and after a period of struggle began to flourish by the cultivation of tobacco.

Fred reached in his shirt pocket and with a smile and a flourish, held out a check.

It seems to have continued to flourish down into the Christian era; remains of its ecclesiastical buildings still exist.

They flourish in any garden soil.

The great general houses such as Rylands's, Philips's and Watt's in Manchester, and Cook's and Pawson's in London, some of which are manufacturers to a minor degree, continue to flourish because under one roof they can supply all that the draper requires, and so enable him to economize in the time spent in buying and to save himself the trouble of attending to many accounts.

Hannah removed her fur coat with a graceful flourish to reveal her snug clothing and perfect body.

Like other creatures birds have come, some to flourish and stay, others to die out.

Tobacco and cascarilla bark also flourish; and cotton is indigenous and was woven into cloth by the aborigines.

Medieval speculation took the Church and the Empire for granted, as divinely appointed institutions, under which the nations of the earth must flourish for the space of man's probation on this planet.

Little natural wood remains in the county, but plantations flourish on the great estates, and orchards have proved successful.

This system continues to flourish.

It is commonly supposed that osiers or willows will prove remunerative and flourish with little attention on any poor, wet, marshy soil.

Cottonwoods flourish along the Little Missouri river, and in sheltered ravines grow stunted junipers and cedars, which seldom rise above the crest of some protecting bluff.

Honeysuckles (Lonicera) flourish in any ordinary garden soil, but are usually sadly neglected in regard to pruning.

It prefers rich fertile soil on the banks of watercourses, but does not flourish in swamps.

The forest patches are confined to the deep kloofs of the mountains, to the valleys of the larger rivers and to the seaslopes of the Drakensberg and other ranges, where they flourish in.

After Octavian's proclamation as emperor he founded a colony here; and Messina continued to flourish as a trading port.

Tulips flourish in any good garden soil that has been deeply dug or trenched and manured the previous season.

They all flourish in rich sandy soil.

Pears, apples, quinces, mulberries an d other fruit-trees flourish, as well as vines; the Cretan wines, however, no longer enjoy the reputation which they possessed in the time of the Venetians.

But many of them still flourish, and are actively engaged in their original task.

The Hevea is found along the water-courses of the lowlands, which includes the large tributaries of the Maranon, while the caucho species flourish on higher ground, above 900 ft.

In the eastern parts of the United States it does not flourish.

As "allies" of the Romans the Nabataeans continued to flourish throughout the first Christian century.

The oak grows most luxuriantly on deep strong clays, calcareous marl or stiff loam, but will flourish in nearly any deep well-drained soil, excepting peat or loose sand; in marshy or moist places the tree may grow well for a time, but the timber is rarely sound; on hard rocky ground and exposed hillsides.

Among the many varieties of trees and plants found are the date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, the myrrh and other gum trees (gnarled and stunted, these flourish most on the eastern foothills), a magnificent pine (the Natal yellow pine, which resists the attacks of the white ant), the fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana and other fruit trees; the grape vine (rare), blackberry and raspberry; the cotton and indigo plants, and occasionally the sugar cane.

It lived to flourish anew among the Germanic tribes at the time of the great migrations.

Marisa's career then began to flourish with many new opportunities.

When Elisabeth finished dinner, Jackson bowed with a flourish.

Among the higher altitudes of north Derbyshire, where the soil is poor and the climate harsh, grain is unable to flourish, while even in the more sheltered parts of this region the harvest is usually belated.

Nisibis early became the seat of a Jacobite bishop and of a Nestorian metropolitan, and under the Arabs (when it continued to flourish and became the centre of the district of Diya`r Rebi`a) the population of the town and neighbourhood was still mostly Christian, and included numerous monasteries.

The district is famed for its stock, and the fine quality of its grain; also for the character of the English grasses laid down there, which flourish in a rich black loam on a limestone formation.

European fruit trees and vines flourish in certain localities, while in the drier regions the Australian wattle, gum trees and pepper trees have been introduced with success.

Almost all the fruits of other countries have been introduced and flourish.

If temperature and moisture are right mildew will flourish.

In other parts fine crops of millet and various kinds of grain are grown, and on it trees flourish abundantly.

It again began to flourish under the marquises of Tuscany, who governed it in the name of the emperor.

The tree is one of the few that will flourish in salt-marshes.

Grieved at the ignorance and superstition which the remissness of the clergy permitted to flourish in the neighbouring parishes, he used every year to visit the most neglected parts of Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland; and that his own flock might not suffer, he was at the expense of a constant assistant.

German and Austrian business men visit the country in large numbers, and colonies of German farmers flourish among the mountains of Little Walachia.

Among trees introduced by the Dutch or British colonists the oak, poplar, various pines, the Australian blue-gum (eucalyptus) and wattle flourish.

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