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Fleur-de-lis

noun

Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals. Synonyms: flag, iris, sword lily.

(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris. Synonym: fleur-de-lys.

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"Fleur-de-lis" Quotes from Famous Books

... were tranquilly feeding knee-deep in the lush, juicy grass, and herds of buffaloes, uncouth, but harmless, might be seen pasturing or reposing in the distance. On either side of the way were waving tracts of yellow fleur-de-lis, and beds of arum, with its arrowy leaves and white blossoms. It was a wild luxuriance of growth, a dreamy stillness of solitude, so lovely that one could scarce remember that ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various

... that green was never so green as in the Valley of Aosta, but here in St. Bruno's corridor there was a new richness of emerald in the green carpet and wall hangings, such as I had not yet known. It was green stamped with living gold, in delicate fleur-de-lis patterns where the sun wove bright threads; and high above was the ceiling of lapis lazuli, in ...

— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... was kindled anew by the adoption as a flash of the old Lincoln green fleur-de-lis of the Manchesters, a cap badge worn by us since 1889, and a relic of the conquest of Guadaloupe by the 63rd Regiment in 1759. No less inspiring was the revival of the Sentry on the 1st March 1917. Of its staff of fifteen when published at Khartum, nine had ...

— With Manchesters in the East • Gerald B. Hurst

... Frugality Escholzia, Do Not Refuse Me Eupatorium, Delay Evergreen Thorn, Solace Fern, Flowering, Magic Fern, Sincerity Fever Root, Delay Fig, Argument Fig Marigold, Idleness Fig Tree, Prolific Filbert, Reconciliation Fir, Time Fir, Birch, Elevation Flax, I Feel Your Kindness Fleur-de-lis, I burn Fleur-de-Luce, Fire Fly Orchis, Error Flytrap, Deceit Fools Parsley, Silliness Forget-me-not, Forget-me-not Foxglove, Insincerity Foxtail, Grass, Sporting Frog Ophrys, Disgust Fumitory, Spleen ...

— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

Words linked to "Fleur-de-lis" : stinking iris, bearing, yellow water flag, bulbous iris, beardless iris, flag, heraldic bearing, Iris foetidissima, sword lily, iris, genus Iris, Persian iris, armorial bearing, Iris pseudacorus, Iris xiphioides, bearded iris, gladdon iris, fleur-de-lys, gladdon, Iris versicolor, Iris persica, vernal iris, dwarf iris, southern blue flag, yellow flag, Iris cristata, heraldry, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, Iris virginica, iridaceous plant, blue flag, Iris verna, yellow iris, charge, English iris