fleur de sel – English noun declension

English noun forms of fleur de sel

Noun: fleur de sel
Singularfleur de sel
Pluralfleurs de sel

Sample Sentences

  • Egyptian salt from Alexandria was highly appreciated, especially their fleur de sel, the light crystals skimmed off the surface of the water. [2002, Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History:]
  • Fleur de sel is less bitter than regular sea salt, they say, because it has very little magnesium. [2019 May 23, Zoe Williams, “Posh salt is having a moment – does enjoying it make me pretentious?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]

Nouns inflected like fleur de sel

fleur de sel, fleur-de-lys,

Etymology

Borrowed from French fleur de sel (literally “salt flower, salt blossom”). See: French Nouns 'fleur de sel'.