fleury

[ flur-ee, floor-ee ]

/ ˈflɜr i, ˈflʊər i /

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adjective Heraldry.

terminating in fleurs-de-lis: a cross fleury.

ornamented with fleurs-de-lis.

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Also flory.

Origin of fleury

1375–1425; late Middle English flourre<Middle French fleure, derivative of fleurflower; see -ee

Words nearby fleury

Fleur, fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lys, fleurette, fleuron, fleury, Flevoland, flew, flews, flex, flexagon

Other definitions for fleury (2 of 2)

Fleury

[ flœ-ree ]

/ flœˈri /

noun

An·dré Her·cule de

[ahn-dreyer-kylduh], /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈkül də/, 1653–1743, French cardinal and statesman.

Claude

[klohd], /kloʊd/, 1640–1723, French ecclesiastical historian.

How to use fleury in a sentence

Fleury’s career has been long and successful, but he never experienced as much individual success and glory as he did a season ago.
Can The Lightning Three-Peat? How Good Will The Kraken Be? The Storylines To Follow This NHL Season.|Terrence Doyle|October 11, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Fleury’s excellent play between the pipes ensured Vegas gave up the fewest goals last regular season.
Can The Lightning Three-Peat? How Good Will The Kraken Be? The Storylines To Follow This NHL Season.|Terrence Doyle|October 11, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Jonas Fleury used to sell homemade liquor and food to the Nepalese soldiers.
United Nations Still Denies its Troops Brought Cholera to Haiti|Jonathan M. Katz|April 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The first white blot in the middle of the photograph is the Fleury sector.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918|Anonymous

About 500 metres from the cross-roads is the site, on the left, of Fleury village.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918|Anonymous
Lieutenant Fleury also suggested that he would like to be a brother to me.
The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France|Margaret Vandercook
Yvonne Fleury, you know, is a French girl and her parents are dead.
The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France|Margaret Vandercook
And this, says Fleury, is the only instance that we know of a stylites or pillar monk in the Western world.
Curiosities of Christian History|Croake James

British Dictionary definitions for fleury

Fleury

/ (French flœri) /

noun

André Hercule de (ɑ̃dre ɛrkyl də). 1653–1743, French cardinal and statesman: Louis XV's chief adviser and virtual ruler of France (1726–43)

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