fleur-de-lys
noun
fleurs-de-lys
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pluralof fleur-de-lys.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The same king also gave to the small church of São Miguel a silver processional cross, all embossed with oak leaves, and ending in fleurs-de-lys, which rises from two superimposed octagons, covered with Gothic ornament.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
I understand the question to be, does any English family bear simply three fleurs-de-lys, in chief, fess-ways—without any additional charge?
From Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Just over the brow is a band-coronet, studded with pearls and crested by fleurs-de-lys, and her fingers are ornamented with rings.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
