Lily

( The ), the French king for the time being. So called from the lilies, which, from the time of Clovis, formed the royal device of France. Ta o ( Jerusalem Delivered ) calls them gigli d’ore (“golden lilies”); but Lord Lytton calls them “silver lilies:” Lord of the silver lilies, canst thou tell If the same fate await not thy descendant? Lord E.L.B. Lytton, The Duche de la Vallière (1836).