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- noun Plural form of
flourisher .
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Examples
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One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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This vessel rejoiced to call herself _Piscataqua_, which is worth recording as a sample of a class of name then much affected by the powers that were, presumably on account of their length; "fine flourishers," to quote the always illustrative Boatswain Chucks, "as long as their homeward-bound pendants, which in a calm drop in the water alongside."
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The other is that the practical outcome of these institutions is a swarm of conceited flourishers with the pen, who, because they have copied a set or two of model account books and learned to imitate more or less cleverly certain illegibly artistic writing copies, imagine themselves competent for any business post, and worthy of a much higher salary than any merely practical accountant who has never been to a business college or attempted the art of fancy penmanship as exhibited in spread eagles and impossible swans.
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Melpomeny, Terpsichory, Arethusy, Bacchanty -- fine flourishers, as long as their pennants which dip alongside in a calm. "
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820
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