flower deluce

English

Noun

flower deluce

Obsolete form of fleur-de-lis.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  She old and crooked were, yet now of late, / As fresh and fragrant as the floure deluce / She was become, by chaunge of her estate […]

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