different between frory vs flory

English

From frore +? -y. Compare Old English fr?ori? (“freezing, frozen, cold, chilly; blanched with fear, sad, mournful”).

frory (comparative more frory, superlative most frory)

(now rare) Frosty; frozen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
  An aged sire with head all frory hore, / And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard […]
Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.

From French fleuri (“covered with flowers”), past participle of fleurir. See flourish for more.

flory (not comparable)

(heraldry, especially of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis.

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