Fleur-de-lis

The answer

IRIS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IRIS answer page.

Used 47 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• LIS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for IRIS

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