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fleur

noun

Etymology

An ellipsis of fleur-de-lis from French fleur (“flower”). Doublet of flor, flour, and flower.

  1. borrowed from fleur — “flower”

Definitions

  1. fleur-de-lis

  2. A female given name from French in quiet use since the 1920s.

    • "Ma petite fleur!" Annette said softly. "Fleur," repeated Soames: "Fleur! we'll call her that."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fleur. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA