for: Fleur-De-Lis: Iris or Lily? Feb-6-2009 By patrick Tweet The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis , plural: fleurs-de-lis; pronounced /?fl??(r)d??li?/ (pronounced [?fl??(r)d??l?s] in Quebec ), translated from French as “lily flower”) is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or