a. Her. Also 5 flure, flourre, 5–6 flurri(e, 6 florie, 7 floury, 8 flore, florey, (flowery), 9 fleurie, flury, flurry. [ad. F. fleuré, -ée, OF. floré, flouré, f. fleur.] Decorated with fleurs-de-lis; esp. of a cross: Having its arms tipped with fleurs-de-lis. (Cf. also COUNTERFLEURY, -FLORY.)
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., xxxi.
| For he was syldun wunte to se | |
| A tablet flourré [Douce MS., flure]. |
1483. Cath. Angl., 136. Flory, florulentus.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Her., C vij b. Hit is calde a cros flurri.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, 33. These Barrulettes are often founde Florie, or Flored, for that they be made after the maner of Floure de Luces.
1611. Drayton, Poly-olb., iv. Notes, 69. Bearing … a Scepter fleury in his right.
1706. Hearne, Collect., 9 May. On ye other a Cross Flore.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 251. A bordure, or, charged within a double tressure fleury.
1823. Rutter, Fonthill, p. xxi. The royal double tressure of Scotland, flory and counter-flory of the first [gules].
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xv. § 1 (ed. 3), 182. The crosslets are drawn fleurie.
