flower-de-luce

[ flou-er-duh-loos ]

/ ˈflaʊ ər dəˈlus /

the iris flower or plant.

Origin of flower-de-luce

1630–40; Anglicization of French fleur de lis

These are certainly strong authorities for saying that the Flower-de-luce is the Lily.

The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare |Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
"The maids don't think it respectable to dance at The Flower-de-Luce," he explained.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles |Thomas Hardy
Along the shore are sweet wild roses interpleached, and flower-de-luce, and yellow water-lilies.

John Greenleaf Whittier |W. Sloane Kennedy
Among these are the equitant leaves of the Iris or Flower-de-Luce.

The Elements of Botany |Asa Gray

Both are related to the flower-de-luce, the stately lily of France.

Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) |Hugo B. Froehlich

flower-de-luce

/ (ˈflaʊədəˈluːs) /

an archaic name for iris (def. 2), lily (def. 1)

C16: anglicized variant of French fleur de lis