Fleur-de-lis Synonyms

flʉrdəlē, flʉrdəlēs
Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. iris
  2. flag
  3. sword lily
(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fleur-de-lys

Words Related to Fleur-de-lis

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. martlet
  2. fleurs-de-lys
  3. fitchee
  4. seaxes
  5. crosslet
  6. cross-crosslets
  7. counterchange
  8. gu
  9. fitchy
  10. chevronels

Fleur-de-lis Sentence Examples

  • The steel gray color metal buckle has a friction closure with a fleur-de-lis design cutout.

  • South of the central court were found parts of a relief in the same material, showing a personage with a fleur-de-lis crown and collar.

  • The conventional fleur-de-lis, as Littre says, represents very imperfectly three flowers of the white lily (Lilium) joined together, the central one erect, and each of the other two curving outwards.

  • The fleur-de-lis is a common device in ancient decoration, notably in India and in Egypt,where it was the symbol of life and resurrection, the attribute of the god Horus.

  • It is uncertain whether the conventional fleur-de-lis was originally meant to represent the lily or white iris - the flower-de-luce of Shakespeare - or an arrow-head, a spear-head, an amulet fastened on date-palms to ward off the evil eye, &c. In Roman and early Gothic architecture the fleur-de-lis is a frequent sculptured ornament.

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