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| 1. v. (intransitive) To thrive or grow well. |  |
| The barley flourished in the warm weather. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To prosper or fare well. | |
| The town flourished with the coming of the railway. | |
| The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence. | |
| His writing flourished before the war. | |
| 4. v. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. | |
| 5. v. To make bold, sweeping movements with. | |
| They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. | |
| 9. v. To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag. | |
| 12. n. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. | |
| With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue. | |
| 13. n. An ornamentation. | |
| His signature ended with a flourish. | |
| 14. n. (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. | |
| The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church. | |
| 15. n. (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building. | |
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