fleur-de-lis

See also: fleur de lis

English

A fleur-de-lis.

Alternative forms

• fleur-de-lys
• fleur-de-luce, flour-delice, flower-de-luce (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier flower-de-luce, from Middle English flourdelis, from Anglo-Norman flour de lis (“lily flower”); later remodelled after modern French fleur de lys (“lily flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌflɝdəˈlis/
• IPA^(key): /ˌflɜːdəˈliːs/

Noun

fleur-de-lis (plural fleurs-de-lis)

1. (heraldry) A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom, often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Adorned all with gemmes of endlesse price, […] And all embost with Lyons and with Flour-delice.

   • 2013, Lesley Gillian, The Guardian, 26 Apr 2013:

     One room has a pink marble bathroom with a gold fleur de lys pattern around the tub.

Synonyms

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Translations

heraldic charge

• Bulgarian: лилия f (lilija)
• Catalan: flor de lis f
• Czech: lilie (cs) f
• Danish: lilje c
• Dutch: fleur-de-lys
• Finnish: lilja (fi)
• French: fleur de lys (fr) f, fleur de lis (fr) f
• German: Lilie (de) f
• Greek: φλερ-ντε-λι n (fler-nte-li)
• Hebrew: חֲבַצֶלֶת (he) f (ḥavatzélet)
• Irish: flór de lúis m
• Italian: giglio (it) m
• Japanese: フルール・ド・リス (furūru do risu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Middle English: flourdelis
• Norwegian: lilje (no) m or f
• Polish: fleur-de-lis m
• Portuguese: flor-de-lis (pt) f
• Romanian: fleur de lis m
• Russian: лилия (ru) f (lilija), флёр-де-лис m (fljor-de-lis)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љиљан m

  Roman: liljan (sh) m

• Spanish: flor de lis f
• Swedish: lilja (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лілія (uk) f (lilija)

Further reading

• fleur-de-lis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Anagrams

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