flower deluce

English

Noun

flower deluce

1. 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 […]