Flourish

n. pl. Flourishes ().

1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
2. Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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.
4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
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.
6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.