fleur-de-lis
- n plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- n (heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris
- The House of Bourbon's golden fleur-de-lis dropped low last week.
- Strutting through a rippling forest of fleur-de-lis flags, some 200,000 Quebeckers staged a joyous wake for the accord that failed -- the three-year effort to meet the province's .
- The last of the German Scouts laid away their fleur-de-lis Scout badges.