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Fleur-de-lys   Listen
Fleur-de-lys

noun
1.
(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris.  Synonym: fleur-de-lis.






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"Fleur-de-lys" Quotes from Famous Books



... regular soldiers. Nova Scotia, the Acadia[431] of other days, was their destination. There it was expected that the old French settlers, who had unwillingly submitted to English conquest, would readily range themselves once more under the fleur-de-lys: Canada had already sent her contingent of 1700 men under M. de Ramsay to aid the enterprise, and M. de Conflans, with four ships of the line from the West Indies, was ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton



Words linked to "Fleur-de-lys" :   bearing, fleur-de-lis, heraldic bearing, charge, armorial bearing, heraldry



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