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flower delice

flower 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 flower delice

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

Words near flower delice in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flower delice (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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