HOW TO PRONOUNCE
fleur
/flɝ/
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What does fleur mean?
noun
- fleur-de-lis
proper noun
- A female given name from French in quiet use since the 1920s.
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/flɝ/
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I lived at the Hôtel de la Fleur, and Mrs. Johnson, the proprietress, had a sad story to tell of lost opportunity.
Among the most sacred plants or flowers were the lotus and the fleur de lis, both of which were venerated because of some real or fancied organic sexual peculiarity.
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J’ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m’en reste; Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste Avec une fleur que tu me donnais.
The two lateral lobes have the appearance of notches cut on either side of the principal lobe; and the union of the three resembles the 'fleur de lis', which, however, is in the process of time effaced by the wearing out of the teeth.