fleur-de-lis

• fleur-de-lys
• fleur-de-luce, flour-delice, flower-de-luce (obsolete)

Borrowed from French fleur de lys (“lily flower”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌflɝdəˈlis/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌflɜːdəˈliːs/

fleur-de-lis (plural fleurs-de-lis)

1. (heraldry) 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.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

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

   • 2013, Lesley Gillian, The Guardian, 26 Apr 2013:

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

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