To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
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 showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
an ornamental embellishment in writing
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
A non-structural embellishment added to a letter.
A swirling, often freehand, embellishment to the basic letterform. Flourishes typically branch off of ascenders and descenders.
Doing something fancy to extend the length of a trick because you are being paid by the hour.
A deliberately visual and fancy move, usually with a deck of cards or coins.