(n.) 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.
FLOURISH (14)
Meaning of FLOURISH (14) in English
Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012