a. [f. FLOURISH sb. + -Y1.] Of or pertaining to flourishes or flourishing; of the nature of a flourish; abounding in flourishes.
1883. G. H. Boughton, Artist Strolls in Holland, in Harper’s Mag., LXVI. Feb., 392/2. When a windmilly town does flourish, it is (from a flourishy point of view) a thing to remember. Ibid. (1884), LXIX. Sept., 523/2. Over much that remains of the best part of the Hague of the eighteenth century—which is a very prominent part indeed—there is a light, flourishy, courtly touch that takes one back to the time of powdered wigs, and of patches deftly placed near dimples and at outer corners of roguish eyes, of jewelled snuff-boxes and Sedan-chairs, and the loftiest of high-heeled brocade shoes.
1891. H. James, The Pupil, in Longm. Mag., XVII. April, 626. Pemberton gathered that Mr. Granger was a rich, vacant American—a big bill with a flourishy heading and no items.
