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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The blackberry bushes were white with bloom and the gardens of the farm-houses gay with peonies and flower-de-luce.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various
Jim's eyes traveled past her to the garden in the rear of the house, where yellow flower-de-luce was beginning to blow.
From Country Neighbors by Alice Brown
These plots were arranged in various figures and devices—such as the cinq-foil, the flower-de-luce, the trefoil, the lozenge, the fret, the diamond, the crossbow, and the oval—all very elaborate and intricate in design.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
There are three greens at this moment in my mind: that of the leaf of the flower-de-luce, that of the yellow iris leaf, and that of the bayonet-like leaf of the common flag.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
Idly thou pausest in the shady walk, Thine ear attentive to the fountain's fall: Thou mark'st the flower-de-luce sway on her stalk, The speckled vergalieus ripening on the wall.
From The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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