Meaning of fleur-de-lis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜, ⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.
2. A village in Blackwood community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1596).
3. The main element in the logo of most Scouting organizations, representing a major theme in Scouting: the outdoors and wilderness.

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Examples

“Adorned all with gemmes of endlesse price, […] And all embost with Lyons and with Flour-delice.”

“And waſh the Sanguin’d Fleur-de-Liſſes white.”

“The pillars of the door that opens to this room are compoſed of pikes, on the top of which are two coats of mail, probably thoſe of John king of France, and David king of Scotland, who were priſoners here: they are both inlaid with gold, and are ornamented with fleur-de-liſſes and thiſtles.”

“The tressure flowerie encompasses the lion of Scotland, to shew that he should defend the fleur-de-lisses, and these to continue a defence to the lion, the ancient imperial ensign of Scotland since Fergus I.”

“Just then, an attendant to whom the Queen had whispered returned; and taking a small case from her hand, Anne produced a bracelet somewhat similar to the very one with which Francesca had parted, excepting that it had her cipher, surrounded by a wreath of fleurs-de-lis. "Louis, will you offer this to Mademoiselle Carrara?"”

““We was not ridin’ with a shipment of fleur-de-lisses,” Phineas countered.”

“The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.”

“One room has a pink marble bathroom with a gold fleur de lys pattern around the tub.”

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