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noun

Lozenge n.

(Her.)

(a)

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

(b)

A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

Anything in the form of lozenge.

Specifically: A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. originally in the form of a lozenge.

Lozenge coach, the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge. (Obs.)

Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.

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Etymology of 'Lozenge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lozenge" Quotes from Famous Books

... a ring with a table diamond, on which were cut, in form of a lozenge, the ancient arms ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... vestments of this character, to be found in the patriarchal sacristy at Moscow. The stoles, which usually correspond, are long, narrow, and nearly straight-sided to the bottom. A peculiar episcopal ornament is the epigonation. It is a large lozenge-shaped ornament embroidered and worked in a similar manner to the other vestments, and by bishops is worn hanging from the ...

— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

... for the learner to note the large configuration, of an irregular lozenge shape, of which the four corners are the first magnitude stars, Aldebaran, Betelgeuze, Sirius, and Rigel (Fig. 85). The belt of Orion is placed symmetrically in the centre of the group, and the whole figure is so striking that once perceived ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... altogether in the taste of the Persian poet who left out all the A's (as well as the poetry) in his verses, or of that other French funambulist whose sonnet in honour of Anne de Montaut was an acrostic, a mesostic, a St. Andrew's Cross, a lozenge,—everything, in short, but a sonnet. What Thackeray endeavoured after when "copying the language of Queen Anne," and succeeded in attaining, was the spirit and tone of the time. It was not pedantic philology at which he aimed, though he did not disdain occasional picturesque ...

— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson

... slightly, and seemed about to refuse the lozenge. But a glance at his daughters' worried faces evidently made him change his mind. He slipped the tablet into his mouth, and then straightened up in his chair. Whatever happened to him he knew he ...

— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope

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