flower deluce

A form of fleur-de-lis — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of fleur-de-lis.

    She old and crooked were, yet now of late, / As fresh and fragrant as the floure deluce / She was become, by chaunge of her estate […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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