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Fleur-de-lis   /flər-di-lɪs/   Listen
Fleur-de-lis

noun
1.
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.
2.
(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



... monthly-trumpet-honeysuckle, gracing the columns of your veranda, porch, or window, and the large Siberian honeysuckle, with its white and pink flowers; and along with them, the various Iris family, or fleur-de-lis, reminding one of France and the Bourbons, the Prussian lilac, and the early phloxes. Then blush out, in all their endless variety of shade and tint, from the purest white to the deepest purple, the whole vast family of roses; ...
— Rural Architecture - Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings • Lewis Falley Allen



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



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