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Fleur-de-lis

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French for "flower of the lily," the fleur-de-lis (⚜) is a common symbol used in medieval heraldry, often to signify purity (in some cases, it was associated with the Virgin Mary).
The symbol was used in many countries, but is most notable with pre-revolutionary French royalty, because of their common use of gold fleur-de-lis on royal blue backgrounds. It was used on their flags, on their coats of arms, and as Symbol Motif Clothing on the kings' royal robes and the queens' Pimped Out Dresses (as in the picture on the right and this one◊).
The actual French spelling is "Fleur-de-lys."
In modern fiction, it's often a motif to refer to the grander styles of old. In Historical Romance, it's often used, sometimes correctly and sometimes not, to prove that the Love Interest is actually hidden royalty or nobility.
May occasionally show up in particularly creative Wingding Eyes.
Note that in anime and manga the white lily motif refers to something else entirely.
See also Four-Leaf Clover.
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CSI: NY: In "The Untouchable," a disturbed, homeless young lady seeks out Mac to report the death of "the woman with the purple flowers." The flowers turn out to be the tattoo of a fleur-de-lis on a murder victim's wrist.
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The protagonist PMC Tekkadan (Iron Flower) in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has a stylized fleur-de-lis as their emblem.
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The Third Street Saints of Saints Row use it as their symbol.
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Chantelise: A fleur-de-lis is engraved onto the coins of Pix that are dropped from monsters.
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An important plot point in The Three Musketeers is that Milady has her shoulder branded with a fleur-de-lis, which marks her as a convicted felon.
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Used in The Da Vinci Code as the symbol of The Priory of Sion.
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The heavy valances in the manor house of the noble Serian family in Snow White with the Red Hair are decorated with a fleur-de-lis motif. They are possibly stylized representations of the blade on a spontoon or glaive given the family's martial background.
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In the Civilization series, the fleur-de-lis is the symbol for the French civilization from the fourth game onward.
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 Fleur-de-lis / int_615a3895
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Lancer, from My Little Pony Tales, had a fleur-de-lis as his cutie mark. He turns out to be quite wealthier than he lets on, as well as, while not quite pure, the Only Sane Man amongst the trio of boys.
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In Moonlight, Mick's ex-wife Coraline had a fleur-de-lis on her shoulder. She told him it was the brand of a prostitute, but he later learned it was a mark that she was part of the French Royal family, who had been vampires at the time of the Revolution.
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Jeanne's symbol in Bayonetta is a heavily stylized fleur-de-lis. Since she is both the heir of the Umbra throne and strongly implied to be of French descent (perhaps even the actual Joan of Arc), it is rather fitting.
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In Hype: The Time Quest, the hero wears the livery of king Taskan IV: white and blue, with a gold fleur-de-lis. As he is sent into the past, he is always mistaken for a foreigner, as previous kings had other liveries. Hype stumbles upon a mythical armor in the past with this livery, during the reign of Taskan II. When he meets not-yet-king Taskan IV about a century later, it turns out the prince (who is still a child) like the livery so much he decides to make it his own when he becomes king; thus, Hype's livery is actually his own.. His fighting his evil double has a black and white livery with an upside-down grey fleur-de-lis.
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In Girl Genius the Master of Paris has a prominent fleur-de-lis on his clothes, and when the presumptive new Storm King has a parade through the streets of Paris there are fleurs-de-lis on many banners lining the parade and on his armor.
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The call girl service in L.A. Confidential was called "fleur-de-lis," with the slogan "Whatever You Desire."
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The Death Note anime gives Misa fleur-de-lis earrings, though they were Creepy Crosses in the manga.
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In The Call of Cthulhu the Mad Artist Henry Antony Wilcox lives in the Fleur-de-lys Studios building, which is a real place in Providence. This, in turn was the inspiration behind "Fleur-de-lys Cigarettes", the fictitious sponsor of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series of audio dramas.
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 Fleur-de-lis / int_9bcc183b
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The name of a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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The 2013 CSI: Miami season finale had a serial killer use a spray-painted fleur-de-lis as the taunting clue to the next victim.
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Fleur-de-lis
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The Ashford Academy insignia in Code Geass is a fleur-de-lis. These motifs show up in several other places as well, particularly around the Britannian royals (since it is also a symbol of royalty). The emblem that the Emperor and Knights of the Rounds wear is a type of fleur-de-lis, as is the symbol Prince Clovis wore, that is also seen on the Purebloods' uniforms.
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In Warhammer 40,000, it is a common symbol among Sisters of Battle, the female representatives of the local Church Militant.
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom develops a cutie mark shaped like this, causing her to speak French.
Later, in "Sweet and Elite", there's an elegant socialite pony with three fleurs-de-lis as her cutie mark. Her name is appropriately Fleur Dis Lee.
Princesses Celestia and Luna have this integrated into the 'boots' they wear as part of their royal regalia. Nightmare Moon also has it as part of the design of her collar as well.
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Princess Lyna from LoliRock has this as her symbol.
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Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto opens with a projection of Cesare Borgia's coat of arms from real life, which features these because he married into French royalty after leaving the church. It is anachronistic, as the play takes place about half-way through his life, a good seven years before that happened. However, it could also be considered fitting, since it goes right from that projection into a prologue about his birth.
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Moxey in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has a tattoo on his arm of a fleur-de-lis; he was drunk when he got it, so he has no idea what it's supposed to represent.
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In the Ciaphas Cain novel Duty Calls, the Order of the White Rose (a Sororitas chapter) uses a lot of fleurs-de-lis. One Battle Sister he meets has a fleur-de-lis tattoo on her forehead, and they're all over the convent as well.
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Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted is a Yu-Gi-Oh! monster card based off the fleur-de-lis. She is a Lady of War, idolized by Ecclesia and acting as her mentor. And even after defecting from Dogmatika, she keeps her fleur-de-lis motif by calling herself Swordsmaster of the Bewitching Iris. The iris flower is typically associated with fleur-de-lis.
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On Merlin, the spokes of King Arthur's crown were fleur-de-lis.
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Interview with the Vampire (2022):
Lestat de Lioncourt's Season 1 character teaser and "One Week" promo feature the fleur-de-lis in the corners of the border to indicate that he's from France (and if the series adheres to book canon, it also alludes that he's a French aristocrat). Moreover, combining the thumbnails of two Lestat-themed Instagram posts from the official Immortal AMC account forms a fleur-de-lis design◊ on the ornamental fence.
A fleur-de-lis motif serves as the background for the titles and captions of the show's TV spots and trailers.
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Kingdom Hearts uses this symbol as a motif, stylising both the Heartless and Nobody emblems after it. Also, it features on Sora's Valour Form, one of his Super Modes.
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Fleur-de-lis is used in the flag of Temeria in The Witcher Series.
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