fleurs-de-lys

A wrought-iron balustrade guides you up three flights beneath the ribbed gothic vaults where every surface is painted with heraldic devices, a star-studded firmament and red walls decorated with hundreds of hand-painted fleurs-de-lys.

Gothic Renaissance in London Colin Amery 2011

Hufton + Crow The red walls are decorated with hundreds of hand-painted fleurs-de-lys.

A Renaissance at St. Pancras 2011

Last year's winner, Richard Wright, has painted the west stairwell of the Dean Gallery with a radiating pattern of tiny black flowers resembling thousands of fleurs-de-lys.

Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010

It looks like a rock, some weird French food obviously, since it sports a fleurs-de-lys, and a grilled steak, surrounded by football helmets.

Cake Wrecks the Game Show? Jen 2008

Here are princesses dressed in white velvet stamped with golden fleurs-de-lys — ladies with hearts of ice and lips of fire, who count their roubles by the million, their lovers by the score, and even their husbands, very often, in figures of some arithmetical importance.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

They had gimme caps with “England” on them, and the royal arms, and “France” with fleurs-de-lys, but nothing local.

Shadow of the Moon Walter Jon Williams 2006

They had gimme caps with “England” on them, and the royal arms, and “France” with fleurs-de-lys, but nothing local.

Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

The red velvet tunic was plaited along the edges with gold and silver thread, and the front of it was richly decorated with the silver fleurs-de-lys, which is the most ancient symbol of Florence.

Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

The window was draped in blue satin covered in the fleurs-de-lys.

Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

George hadn't spared the oil money and from the street the Warfield, with its fleurs-de-lys and cartouches, showed it.

The Black Ice Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1993