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flower de lis

flower de lis is the archaic 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.

See all 3 meanings of fleur-de-lis

Forms of flower de lis

pluralflowers de lis

Questions about flower de lis

What is flower de lis the archaic form of?
Flower de lis is the archaic form of fleur-de-lis.

Words near flower de lis in the dictionary

  1. flower clocks
  2. flower cluster
  3. flower clusters
  4. flower crown
  5. flower crowns
  6. flower de lis
  7. flower delice
  8. flower deluce
  9. flower flies
  10. flower fly
  11. flower garden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flower de lis (page history and authors); fleur-de-lis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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