fleurs-de-lys
- plural of fleur-de-lys.
Example Sentences
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To ensure recognition of the French connection, everything is paved with fleurs-de-lys embroidered in gold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Last year's winner, Richard Wright, has painted the west stairwell of the Dean Gallery with a radiating pattern of tiny black flowers resembling thousands of fleurs-de-lys.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
Or, on a fess azure, three fleurs-de-lys of the first.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
It was elaborately chased and engraved, and adorned with fleurs-de-lys, and other heraldic devices, and had on the top a lion supporting the arms of England.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
The floor was covered with a sweet-smelling mat of Abingdon rushes; and the curtains of his old rooms in Balliol were hung in place, dim green curtains sown with golden fleurs-de-lys.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
