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  flory

  adjective

  fleury.
• Flory
  Flory

  noun

  Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.

flory

¹ American  

[flawr-ee, flohr-ee] / ˈflɔr i, ˈfloʊr i /

adjective

Heraldry.

1. fleury.

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Flory ² American  

[flawr-ee, flohr-ee] / ˈflɔr i, ˈfloʊr i /

noun

1. Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.

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flory British  

/ ˈflɜːrɪ, ˈflʊərɪ, ˈflɔːrɪ /

adjective

1. (usually postpositive) heraldry containing a fleur-de-lys

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Etymology

Origin of flory

C15: from Old French floré , from flor _flower

Example Sentences

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Mortimer of Norfolk bore “gold powdered with fleurs-de-lys sable” and Edward III. quartered for the old arms of France “Azure powdered with fleurs-de-lys gold,” such fields being often described as flowered or flory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

On the walls were hung pieces of coarse linen roughly embroidered with small crosses flory, worked in dark red silk.

From Via Crucis by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Or, a pale purpure, flory and counter flory gules.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

So Gilbert Warde was made a knight, and to this day the Wards bear the cross flory in their shield, which was given to their forefathers by Eleanor of Aquitaine before she was English Queen.

From Via Crucis by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Felton bore “Gules two lions passant within a double tressure flory silver.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

This work was supported by NIH grants R01 HD049347 and R21 HD 087088; NSF grants BCS 1439290 and BCS 1940980; and funding from the Mabel H. Flory Trust.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024

Being able to detect cancer earlier can enable veterinarians to provide families with more options for treatment and care, Flory says.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023

And in the dry, grassy plots, the combination of shorter trees and higher flames proved “highly problematic,” Flory says, with nearly half of the trees dying within 1 month of being burned.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 3, 2022

“This is the community that Biola should be trying to hold onto,” USC’s Flory said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

When we’ve all finished, I break into a song by Flory Jagoda—a woman who was a champion of Sephardic music and sang in Ladino.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar