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fleur-de-lys

fleur-de-lys is the alternative form of fleur-de-lis.

Meaning of fleur-de-lis

Noun

fleur-de-lis (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleur-de-lises or fleur-de-lisses)

  1. 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.
    • Adorned all with gemmes of endlesse price, […] And all embost with Lyons and with Flour-delice.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (scouting) The main element in the logo of most Scouting organizations, representing a major theme in Scouting: the outdoors and wilderness.

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Forms of fleur-de-lys

pluralfleurs-de-lys

Words formed from fleur-de-lys

Questions about fleur-de-lys

What is fleur-de-lys the alternative form of?
Fleur-de-lys is the alternative form of fleur-de-lis.

Words near fleur-de-lys in the dictionary

  1. fleur-de-lised
  2. fleur-de-lises
  3. fleur-de-lisses
  4. fleur-de-lisée
  5. fleur-de-luce
  6. fleur-de-lys
  7. fleur-de-lysed
  8. Fleurant
  9. fleurantiid
  10. fleurantiids
  11. Fleurants

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