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
Definitions:
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(1)
(flourish as in: the business is flourishing) to thrive (grow or develop well)
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(2)
(flourish as in: dismissed them with a flourish) a showy gesture
or:
the act of waving -- a hand or an item -
(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Shakespeare's plays, flourish is often used as a stage direction indicating a specific type of showy gesture: fanfare played by trumpets or other horns to announce the entry or exit of royalty.
Check a comprehensive dictionary for other senses including some that are of interest to musicians.