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Flour delice, Flour delyce, n. Also: floure, flowr(e, delys, delis(e; fleur de lice, fluir dulys, flourethelys, flourthelis. [ME. flour(e) de lys(e, lyce, lice (14th c), OF. flour de lys, lis, liz.]
1. The heraldic or decorative fleur-de-lis. c1420 Wynt. vii. 2131 (W).
Thare fell ane of his flour de lice, To do his fallow sic suppris 1451 Acts II. 40/1.
The crounne of France hauand a crownit flowre delice on ilk syde of the scheild c1450-2 Howlat 360.
Thre flour delycis of Fraunce all of fyne gold In a feld of asure Ib. 370. a1500 Rauf C. 670.
Flowris with flourdelycis formest in feir 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 81.
Ane vche of gold like a flourthelis of diamantis 1502 Ib. II. 37.
For ane ring of gold set with dyamant and tua rubyis in manir of fleur-de-lice 1534 Bamff Chart. 65.
With ane flourdelyce assendand up to the pictour of ane mans heid at the hycht of the cross 1549 Compl. 68/26.
Ane rede rampand lyon in ane feild of gold bordoryt about vith doubil floure delicis 1581 Burne Disput. 104.
Siclyk Caluin vas markit vith the flour delise vpone his schuldir for the horribill syn of sodomie c1615 Chron. Kings 5.
Four fluir dulyssis adioynit in the tyme of the allyanceis betuix France and Scotland
b. As a design on a groat of the 15th cent. 1467 Acts II. 89.
The auld Inglis grot sall pas for xvi d … The grot of the floure delyce viij d 1478 Ib. 118/2.
Thar is litle or nane ald monye … nouther … grotis floure de lis [etc.] 1489 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 549.
The groit callit the crovnyt groyt xij d., the flour de lys vj d
2. The iris or lily. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlviii. 138.
Lat no nettill vyle … Hir fallow to the gudly flour delyce 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 117.
The flour delice furth spred his hevinly hew c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iii. 821.
Of the rude rute springis the flour delicefig. c1515 Kennedy Asl. MS. II. 272/1.
Closter of Crist, riche recent flour delys, Aue Maria c1500-c1512 Dunb. Ib. 278/71.
Haile, … flour delice of Paradys a1568 Bann. MS. 218 a/16.
Off womanheid ane flour delice
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