Fleur-de-lis Definition

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.