fleur-de-lis

How To Use fleur-de-lis In A Sentence

• Gold velvet drapes were tied back from a large bay window with tasseled cords, fleur-de-lis-patterned shades covering the panes of glass. Haven
• Hundreds of the little fleur-de-lis scales and seeds were scattered by the wind and even now some lie on the window ledge suspended in the threads of long-abandoned spiders' webs. Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
• The fleur-de-lis symbolizes France, where the unit saw its first combat experience during World War I, while the feathers denote the conflicts in which the unit participated.
• The winning fedora was to be found atop a gent named Michael Woodlee , who kept things understated with three fleur-de-lis pins on a black hat. Hot Heads Unite to Mind the Plumage
• Per fess Or and Azure, a chevron Gules between three mullets counterchanged a canton of England a fleur-de-lis for difference.
• Wearing only a fleur-de-lis T-shirt and panties, Heather sat down on the mattress beside him and held her breath as she gently pulled the sheet back. Etched in Bone
• The reporter was particularly taken by ‘Lady Deramore's dress of white and gold brocaded satin, embroidered with tiny gold fleur-de-lis, worn with heirloom diamonds in eighteenth century settings’.
• They ooh and aah over every aspect of the house—the skylight over the stairs, the fleur-de-lis wallpaper in the back upstairs bathroom, even the finished attic I use as my bedroom—but they always find some flaw, something to complain about. The Kitchen Daughter
• The plaque in the center bears the monogram ‘MA’ for Marie Antoinette, and on both sides above the portraits a fleur-de-lis is set against a shield-shaped blue ground.
• Her ivory neck and face rises like a stamen from her red satin dress, perhaps evoking the Florentine fleur-de-lis. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review