flourishing
noun1
An act or instance of thriving or flowering.
2
A bold, sweeping movement.
- Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance. I noticed, though, that whenever one looked tired and lagged, she let it slip past. But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
3
A period of greatest influence.
4
A boasting or bragging.
5
The brandishing of a weapon.
- Derived terms
- card flourishing