单词 | gold lily |
释义 | gold lilyn.ΚΠ 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole Table The red or gold Lilly. 1851 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris in Poems (ed. 7) 233 While the gold-lily blows. 2. A stylized heraldic gold lily composed of three petals bound together near their bases, known esp. from the former royal arms of France. Often in plural. Cf. fleur-de-lis n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [noun] > lily flowerc1330 lilya1352 fleur-de-lisc1400 lis1611 gold lily1755 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso I. xxiii. 388/2 He..should hie To th' ensign of gold lilies [It. verso le 'nsegne dei bei Gigli d'oro]..; that he with Charles's army might be join'd. 1849 Athenæum 20 Jan. 62/1 We find, among the vestments for her chapel, one of ‘red velvet powdered with trefoils of goldsmith's work’, another of blue powdered with gold lilies. 1916 Peddie Chron. June 103 Enter General Lafayette and his staff with an escort of French troops. They carry a white flag with the gold lilies of France upon it. 1989 Associated Press (Nexis) 20 June A replica of the cell [of Marie Antoinette]..is decorated with wallpaper embossed with the royal blue and gold lily emblems that covered the walls 200 years ago. 2008 K. Klassen & C. Gavle Kings & Kindred 90 Tord's coat-of-arms has 9 gold lilies (fluer de lis) [sic] on a red field. On the helmet is one gold lily. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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