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Flourished vs Vaudeville - What's the difference?

flourished | vaudeville |

As a verb flourished

is (flourish).

As a noun vaudeville is

(historical|uncountable) a style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in north america from the 1880s through the 1920s.

flourished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (flourish)

  • 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.
  • vaudeville

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia vaudeville)
  • (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
  • (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Ben Brantley, title=Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes. }}

    Synonyms

    * music hall (British)

    Derived terms

    * vaudevillian (noun)