英语词汇flourish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

flourish. An old euphemism for the sex act used by Virginia tobacco planter, author, and colonial official William Byrd, who kept a secret diary in shorthand as an avocation, never intend- ing for it to be published. He had no inhibitions about married love, judging by his entry for July 30, 1710: “In the afternoon my wife and I had a little quarrel which I reconciled with a flourish. Then she read a sermon in Dr. Tillitson to me. It is to be observed that the flourish was performed on the billiard table.”

词汇	flourish
词源	flourish. An old euphemism for the sex act used by Virginia tobacco planter, author, and colonial official William Byrd, who kept a secret diary in shorthand as an avocation, never intend- ing for it to be published. He had no inhibitions about married love, judging by his entry for July 30, 1710: “In the afternoon my wife and I had a little quarrel which I reconciled with a flourish. Then she read a sermon in Dr. Tillitson to me. It is to be observed that the flourish was performed on the billiard table.”
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