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 traversed first a flat marshy country with sandy soil and water not more than four feet below the surface where, on the lowest areas a close ally of our wild flower-de-luce was in bloom.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
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
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
Crab, cedar, corn, cypress, fig, flax, flower-de-luce, grass, hemp, laurel, mandrake, pine, plums, damsons, primrose, thorns. 3d Henry VI.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
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