The term flourish may refer to:
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Flourish (fanfare), ceremonial music played on a bugle
* A decorative curl in typography or handwriting, see
Swash (typography)
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Flourish of approval
A flourish of approval or ''krul'' ("curl") is a mostly Dutch symbol used for grading schoolwork or to show that one has seen and agreed with a paragraph. The ''krul'' first appeared in the early 19th century together with the rising bureaucracy in ...
, a Dutch symbol of approval typically used for grading and correcting work.
* "to bloom", of a person's or a culture's peak activity; Latin
floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
"bloomed" refers to a person's known period of activity.
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Card flourish
Cardistry is the performance art of card flourishing. Unlike card magic, cardistry is meant to be visually impressive and appear very hard to execute.
The term "cardistry" is a portmanteau of "card" and "artistry". People who engage in cardist ...
, a stage magic term for a visual display of skill.
* Especially in Renaissance fencing,
Twirling
Twirling is a form of object manipulation where an object is twirled by one or two hands, the fingers or by other parts of the body. Twirling practice manipulates the object in circular or near circular patterns. It can also be done indirectly by ...
of the weapon as a display of dexterity.
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''Flourish'' (film), a comedic thriller
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Flourishing
Flourishing is "when people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time," living "within an optimal range of human functioning." It is a descriptor and measure of positive men ...
in positive psychology, is living in an optimal range of human functioning.
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Flourish (diacritic), a rare diacritic in Latin script.
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