Usually means: Excessively elaborate or ornate decoration.
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  1. overflourish: Collins English Dictionary
  2. overflourish: Wordnik
  3. overflourish: Wiktionary
  4. Overflourish: Dictionary.com
  5. Overflourish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. overflourish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Overflourish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. overflourish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. overflourish: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Overflourish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (overflourish)

verb:  (obsolete) To make excessive display or flourish of.
verb:  (obsolete) To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.

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