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Various things.

1. Most often, in a stage direction, indicating a short phrase played on trumpets

2. To flourish is to grow and prosper as in "Britain be fortunate and flourish in

peace and plenty" from Cymbeline.

3. A decoration or frill. The general word which gave rise to the first meaning. E.g. "since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes" from Hamlet

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