final flourish
Last dramatic touch
A final flourish is a dramatic finishing touch—a last embellishment that adds flair or emphasis to something already complete.
A pianist might end with a final flourish of arpeggios; a speaker might conclude with a rhetorical final flourish.
The phrase suggests showmanship: She signed the contract with a final flourish of her pen.
- crescendoGradual increase in loudness
- codaClosing musical passage
- climaxPoint of greatest intensity
- coup de grâceMerciful finishing blow
- endingFinal portion of something
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- endingsending, the end, close, end, conclusion
- Race/Competition Termssprinter, marathoner, champion, winner, runner-up
final flourishanticlimactic ending
Resolution that disappoints expectations
whimper · soft landing · fizzle · fading out · slipping away
final flourishfizzling out
Gradually losing momentum
dying gasp · fading away · trailing off · gradual decline · slow fade
final flourishgrand entrance
Ostentatious way to appear
first impression · kickoff · debut · preamble · overture
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