[F. fleur; see FLOWER.]
1. An ornamental flower.
1841. E. Hawkins, Silver Coins (1876), 178. Each limb of the cross terminates in an annulet, annulet enclosing pellet in place of the fleurs in the angles.
2. A kind of woollen stuff (see quot.).
1883. Cassell’s Fam. Mag., Oct., 697/1. Fleur is the name for a great novelty, viz., a serge ground on which are large patterns in a sort of weaving like a Brussels carpet, and of a numerous mixture of colours all deftly blending, so that no one tone prevails.
Hence Fleured ppl. a. [+ -ED2], adorned or marked with a fleur or fleurs.
1841. E. Hawkins, Silver Coins (1876), 246. The arch on the king’s breast is not fleured, but terminates in a crescent.
