lis

Clipping of fleur-de-lis.

Noun government, heraldry

  1. Clipping of fleur-de-lis.
    • […] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle. - 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, ABC of Heraldry, page 175:

Forms

lisses

Noun law

  1. The substance of a legal dispute.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”).

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of li

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.