flower-de-luce
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flower-de-luce
1630–40; Anglicization of French fleur de lis
Example Sentences
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We have bachelor's-buttons, lady-slippers, tiger-lilies, flower-de-luce, hollyhocks, and pinks, besides bushes of lilac and matrimony; then we have old cedars clipped into shape, and ever so many little paths and garden-beds edged with box.
From The Old Stone House by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Henry V. Apple, balm, docks, elder, fig, flower-de-luce, grass, hemp, leek, nettle, fumitory, kecksies, burs, cowslips, burnet, clover, darnel, strawberry, thistles, vine, violet, hemlock. 1st Henry VI.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
In a crown are three things: gold is the first; precious stones are the second; and the turrets of the flower-de-luce, raised up above the head, those are the third.
From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt
By gold, wisdom; by the precious stones, discretion; and by the turrets of the flower-de-luce I understand the perfection of virtue.
From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt
When the Iberian quaked, her worthies named; And the fair flower-de-luce grew pale, set by The red rose and the white!
From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.
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