Both Uses of
flourish
in
Fahrenheit 451
- Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!
p. 35..2 *flourish = showy gesture
- Later, the men around Montag could not say if they had really seen anything Perhaps the merest flourish of light and motion in the sky.
p. 151..2flourish = show
Definition:
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(flourish as in: dismissed them with a flourish) a showy gesture
or:
the act of waving -- a hand or an item