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flourish sb.: ostentatious embellishment, gloss, varnish LLL. II. i. 14, IV. iii. 238 “Lend me the of all gentle tongues,” R3 I. iii. 241, IV. iv. 82, Ham. II. ii. 91 “since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,” V. ii. 187.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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