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Flourish vs Blazon - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between flourish and blazon

is that flourish is to adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.

As verbs the difference between flourish and blazon

is that flourish is to thrive or grow well while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.

As nouns the difference between flourish and blazon

is that flourish is a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag while blazon is a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

flourish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To thrive or grow well.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • To prosper or fare well.
  • * Nelson
    • Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
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  • To be in a period of greatest influence.
  • To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
  • To make bold, sweeping movements with.
  • To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
  • To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
  • * J. Watts
    • They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
  • To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  • To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
    • (Fenton)
    (Shakespeare)
  • To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
  • (obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (es)
  • A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
    • With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
  • An ornamentation.
    • His signature ended with a flourish .
  • (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
    • The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
  • (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

    • References

    * English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs

    blazon

    English

    (wikipedia blazon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
  • * 1894 , James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry :
    • ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
  • (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
  • * 1997 , Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon :
    • We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented'' many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the ''everyday lexicon of terms...
  • (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.
  • Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
  • * Collier
    • Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivefold blazon .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To describe a coat of arms.
  • * Addison
    • the coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
    • After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto
  • To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
  • * Shakespeare, , Act VI-III:
    • O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st / in these two princely boys.
  • * Trumbull
    • There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
  • * Cowper
    • to blazon his own worthless name
  • To display conspicuously or publicly.
  • To shine; to be conspicuous.
  • To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
  • * Garth
    • She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

    Related terms

    * emblazon * device ----