FLEURS-DE-LYS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fleurs-de-Lys In the reign of Louis VII. (1137-1180) the national standard was thickly charged with flowers. In 1365 the number was reduced by Charles VI. to three (the mystical church number). Guillim, in his Display of Heraldrie, 1611, says the device is "Three toads erect, saltant;" in allusion to which Nostradamus, in the sixteenth century, calls Frenchmen crapauds (toads). Recently it has been thought that the device is really a "bee flying," because certain ornaments resembling bees were found in the tomb of Childeric, father of Clovis, when it was opened in 1653. These bees are now generally believed to be the fleurons of horse-trappings, and quite independent of the emblem. The fleur-de-lys or lily-flower was chosen by Flavio Gioja to mark the north point of the compass, out of compliment to the King of Naples, who was of French descent (1302). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Usage Frequency: FLEURS-DE-LYS

"FLEURS-DE-LYS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLEURS-DE-LYS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: FLEURS-DE-LYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-l-l-r-s-s-u-y"
	-3 letters: duellers, fuellers, fullered, ruleless.
	-4 letters: deerfly, defuses, duelers, dueller, elderly, eldress, eluders, eyefuls, fellers, feruled, ferules, flyless, fuelers, fuelled, fueller, fullers, fullery, furless, refuels, refused, refuses, resells, sellers, yellers.
	-5 letters: defers, defuse, dressy, druses, dueler, duller, dulses, duress, elders, eluder, eludes, eyeful, felled, feller, ferule, fessed, fleers, fleury, fleyed, flyers, freely, fueled, fueler.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-l-l-r-s-s-u-y"
	+4 letters: disrespectfully, splendiferously.
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