The word 'fleur' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a French word used to mean 'flower'. For example, you could say: "This garden has a variety of beautiful fleurs, including roses, daisies, and tulips."
At the top end of the range discerning gourmets pay the equivalent of $70,000 a tonne or more for fleur de sel, the highest-quality French sea salt, harvested by hand at picturesque locations but still the same sodium chloride.The huge price differences are not the only things that distinguish salt from other commodities.
Latin ō (and ŭ) and ē became diphthongs ou and ei in Northern French at an early period (after the 5th but before the 9th century); the 12th-century phonetic results eu and oi provided the present-day spellings, though the sounds thus represented have changed considerably since (compare fleur 'flower,' from flour, from flore).
This was well demonstrated in the MAN show in which Bobby Abley combined teddy bear silhouettes, fleur de lis and Disney-fied birds in his collection of urban sportswear.
In Glass Wings (Bloodaxe), Fleur Adcock is as clear-eyed as always in a collection that ranges widely over lost worlds, family histories and memories of childhood, but always maintains the art of seemingly artless observation.
· Hippodrome, Wed 14 to Feb 17 Darkin Ensemble: Augustine On tour Choreographer Fleur Darkin's latest work plumbs a number of psychological depths, as it looks back to the treatment of mental disorders in late 19th-century Paris.
The recently returned Delhi correspondent Edwards and his wife Fleur have launched a fundraising page to ensure Ramesh has some financial security after all her hard work.
A red, white and blue Serbian flag flies from the bell tower of an orthodox church; at the bus station, a Bosniak fleur-de-lis is spraypainted on a wall.
During the primary, the Republicans ran television advertisements that attacked Ms Landrieu for living amid walls festooned with "elegant fleur-de-lis wallpaper" in a "million-dollar Washington mansion".
The provincial motto, emblazoned on every car's number plate, is "Je me souviens" (I remember)—an allusion to a poem with the bitter line, "I remember that I was born under the fleur-de-lis and grew up under the rose".
At another dive bar in the southwest of the city, Seth, a heavily tattooed smoker in a fleur-de-lis baseball cap, says that a ban "would hurt a little, I guess, but I'd just go outside".
A number of early plates displayed the Royalist fleur-de-lis, but these were soon replaced by countless Republican phrases and symbols.
