Her. Pl. lis, lisses. Also 7 lize, 8 lys. [a. F. lis lily.] = FLEUR-DE-LIS 2.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. 572. Hee [Edw. III.] … quartered the Flower de Lize with the Leopards … albeit wee see his former Seale also adorned with two Lize or Lillies.
1707. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. ii. 90. Or, within a double Tressure, Counter-flower’d Lys.
1870. H. Jennings, Rosicrucians, vii. 45. Now of the ‘lisses,’ as we shall elect to call them. Ibid., 46. The three ‘Lotuses,’ or ‘Lisses,’ were the coat of arms.
1888. Athenæum, 1 Dec., 742/1. A cross fleury with lions and lis in the angles.
