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▸ verb: (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
▸ verb: (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
▸ verb: (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To brandish (a weapon).
▸ noun: A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
▸ noun: An ornamentation.
▸ noun: (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
▸ noun: (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
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