Fleur-de-lis in a sentence as a noun

FYI it is a fleur-de-lis[1], which, appropriately to the team's name, is frequently used in connection with saints. Which is also the beauty of emoji -- they don't have any meaning or intention prescribed by Unicode, only a form.

Makes sense, a few million Francophones hemmed in by hundreds of millions of Anglophones -- in order to preserve the language and culture measures need to be taken to ensure that future generations carry on the fleur-de-lis.

Fleur-de-lis definitions

noun

plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

See also: iris flag

noun

(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris

See also: fleur-de-lys