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flour-delice

flour-delice is the obsolete 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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Questions about flour-delice

What is flour-delice the obsolete form of?
Flour-delice is the obsolete form of fleur-de-lis.

Words near flour-delice in the dictionary

  1. flour moths
  2. flour paste
  3. flour pastes
  4. flour treatment agent
  5. flour treatment agents
  6. flour-delice
  7. flour-monger
  8. floured
  9. flourescence
  10. flourescent
  11. flourier

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