8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
noun a showy gesture
noun an ornamental embellishment in writing
noun a display of ornamental speech or language
originFrom Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0