The term flourish may refer to:
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Flourish (fanfare)
Ruffles and flourishes are preceding fanfare for honors music, ceremonial music for distinguished people.
By country Israel
In the Israeli Defence Forces, ruffles and flourishes are sounded as a guard of honor presents arms to signify the honors ...
, ceremonial music played on a bugle
* A decorative curl in typography or handwriting, see
Swash (typography)
A swash is a typographical flourish, such as an exaggerated serif, terminal, tail, entry stroke, etc., on a glyph.
The use of swash characters dates back to at least the 16th century, as they can be seen in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's ''L ...
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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 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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