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A silver fleur-de-lis on a blue background is the arms of the Barons Digby. [56] In English and Canadian heraldry the fleur-de-lis is the cadence mark of a sixth son. [57] A fleur-de-lis can also be seen on the flag of Monmouthshire, Wales: Per pale azure and sable three fleurs-de-lys or. [58]
The arms were adopted in their current form by the government of Quebec in 1939 to reflect Quebec's political history: the French regime is symbolised by the gold fleur-de-lis on a blue background; the British regime is symbolised by a gold lion on a red background; the pre-Confederation period is symbolised by three green maple leaves on a ...
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The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural: fleurs-de-lis; / ˌ f l ɜːr d ə ˈ l iː /, [ˌflœː(ʀ)dəˈlɪs] in Quebec French), translated from French as "lily flower") is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynastic ...
Fleur-de-lis: ⚜: U+269C ⚜ France, Quebec, Trinity, Scouting: Outlined white star ⚝ U+269D ⚝ Coat of arms of Morocco: Three lines converging right ⚞ U+269E ⚞ Someone speaking closed captioning symbol (from ARIB STD B24) Three lines converging left ⚟ U+269F ⚟ Background speaking closed captioning symbol (from ARIB ...
Relationship to fleur-de-lis [ edit ] According to Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages , an 18th-century French naturalist and lexicographer , the name fleur-de-lis applied to the heraldic symbol may be related to Iris pseudacorus rather than to a lily, based on the shape and yellow colour of the flower.
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