2 uses
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Definition
a showy gesture
or:
the act of waving — a hand or an item
or:
the act of waving — a hand or an item
- 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. 151.2
flourish = show
There are no more uses of "flourish" in Fahrenheit 451.
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