Re: Fleur de Lys and the British crowns Archived Message
Posted by RealGabo on February 8, 2013, 3:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Fleur de Lys and the British crowns"
"I have also read that the fleur de lys looks more like an iris blossom than like a lily" this is actually a redundancy because iris is a type of lily... The fleur de lis that is used in heraldry is a stylized version of the yellow lily (Iris pseudacorus), also called yellow flag, water flag or yellow iris. Another interesting fact provided by the written that Nellie posted is that the way we see the flower is from its lateral side (as a "fleuron"); but in the case of the roses (f.e. a tudor rose), or other flowers, usually we see it with the flower open towards the eye of the beholder, in that case they are technically called as a "rosette" (regardless, for it, what kind / type of flower are observing: roses, lilies, forget-me-nots, etc. [f.e. the sun-flower in the Cartier tiara of the Princess of Réthy]).
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