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FLEUR-DE-LYS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: fleurs-de-lys   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris

Synonyms:

fleur-de-lis; fleur-de-lys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fleur-de-lys" is a kind of...):

armorial bearing; bearing; charge; heraldic bearing (heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield)

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

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