Found 3 items, similar to Flourishes.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: flourish membiak
English → English (WordNet) Definition: flourish flourish n 1: a showy gesture; “she entered with a great flourish” 2: an ornamental embellishment in writing 3: a display of ornamental speech or language 4: the act of waving [syn: brandish] 5: (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; “he entered to a flourish of trumpets”; “her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare” [syn: fanfare, tucket] v 1: grow stronger; “The economy was booming” [syn: boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, expand] 2: gain in wealth [syn: thrive, prosper, fly high] 3: move or swing back and forth; “She waved her gun” [syn: brandish, wave]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Flourishes Flourish \Flour"ish\, n.; pl. Flourishes. 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. --Howell. [1913 Webster] 2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. [1913 Webster] The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] He lards with flourishes his long harangue. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. [1913 Webster] The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. [1913 Webster]