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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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
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 Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
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 Edmund Garratt Gardner
A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul, On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France.—
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
In the instant of meeting, with almost the blindness of instinct, he dropped the point of his spear against the single red flower-de-luce in the middle of the on-coming shield.
From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
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