This title of Fleur de Louis has been changed to Fleur de Luce, Fleur de Lys, andFleur de Lis.
The Iris has obtained this name, which is derived from the French Fleur de Louis, from its having been assumed as his device by Louis VII.
It is believed that the Marcon's body is marked somewhere with a Fleur de Lis, and that if a patient suffering under King's Evil touch this Fleur de Lis, or if the Marcon breathe upon him, the malady will be sure to disappear.
After many changes of position, the Fleur de Lys finally disappeared from the English shield in the first year of the present century.
The Indian or Sweet Scabious (Scabiosa atropurpurea) is called by the Italians Fior della Vedova, and by the French Fleur de Veuve, or Widow's Flower.
The Fleur de Lys appertains to the Bourbon race, and was made the ornament of the northern radius of the compass in honour of Charles of Anjou, who was King of Sicily at the time of this great discovery.
Of all the series I am fondest of the former, and indeed any early money in that metal, whether classical or continental, is my weak point, provided that it is as nearly fleur de coin as may be.
It is not sufficient that it is well-preserved or even fleur de coin; for it may have been badly struck, or it may be damaged by a flaw or by the cleaner.
It was fleur de coin, and I could not make up my mind to let it go, even to so exalted a personage.
I have had repeated arguments both with Schulman and Bom on the subject of a rather numerous and important class of Dutch coins, which almost habitually present themselvesfleur de coin.
As Madame de Staël has beautifully said, 'On dépose fleur à fleur la couronne de la vie.
It is thought that the countess was less cruel than the fleur Angevine of Ronsard.
When only thirteen she married the Comte de Verrue, who somewhat injudiciously presented her, a fleur de quinze ans, as Ronsard says, at the court of Victor Amadeus of Savoy.
Here in the environs of Ollioules, on the hillsides flanking its celebrated gorge, is found in profusion the fleur d'or, famed in the verses of Provençal poets.
Such is the charm of the ajonc, "la fleur d'or de Provence.
It always jars upon my sense of appropriateness to hear this old garden favorite called Fleur de Lis.
No father and mother could have let the boy marry Fleur without knowledge of the facts; and the facts determine Jon, not the persuasion of his parents.
And in 1920, when again the clan gathered to bless the marriage of Fleur with Michael Mont, the state of England is as surely too molten and bankrupt as in the eighties it was too congealed and low-percented.
Opinions differ as to whether the Sancreed lily is a spear head or a fleur de lys: they also differ as to the precise meaning of the cup: in the opinion of Mr. J.
Had the old lady accosted her in a supercilious manner, La Fleur would have disliked her, even if she had supposed she were a person to be respected.
La Fleur returned to the kitchen and reread the telegram.
With her head on one side, and her smile and her bow, La Fleur left the kitchen by the outer door.
To have waived this privilege without first indicating that she knew La Fleur would acknowledge her possession of it, would have been damaging to Miss Panney.
It will be a grand vacation for us, for we shall stay away from Thorbury for two weeks, and the only thing which has troubled us is to decide what we shall do with La Fleur while we are gone.
La Fleur turned and looked at him with a pleasant smile.
This was more than La Fleur could comprehend, but she inferred in a general way that Mr. Haverley's farm was a profitable one.
She had said all she could say, and now she hoped that La Fleur would treat the proposition with contempt.
La Fleur looked at Phoebe, and then dropped the subject.
In five minutes, Mrs. Tolbridge returned with the information that La Fleur would be overjoyed to go to Cobhurst for a fortnight.
La Fleur now retired to a seat under a tree near the kitchen door, and applied her intellect to the consideration of the dinner, and the future of the Drane family and herself.
Seldom had La Fleur or either of her husbands prepared for prince, ambassador, or titled gourmand a meal which better satisfied the loftiest outreaches of the soul in the truest interests of the palate.
In the new heraldic arrangement the fleur de lis was omitted, and the title of the King of France wisely expunged.
A great deal of the pomatum sold as pommade surfin, à la fleur d'orange, by the manufacturers of Cannes, is nothing more than fine suet perfumed with syringa blossoms by the maceration process.
Turning again on the right into the main central thoroughfare, we may find, on the south side, the Fleur de Lys Hotel—34 High Street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
