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/lˈɔzəndʒ/ Listen

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

... repeated in olive green on a gold-thread ground. Pairs of seated animals, addorsed regardant and geese vis-a-vis are worked within the lozenge-shaped compartments of the trellis framework which regulates the pattern. Both animals and birds are separated by conventional trees, and the latter are enclosed in inscriptions of Kufic characters. Siculo-Saracenic; 11th or ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... world's sake, that I should be put into decent mourning; for my grandmother's death could not be kept from the Quality, and there was to be a grand funeral. She lay in State in her great bedchamber; tapers in silver sconces all around her, an Achievement of arms in a lozenge at her head, the walls all hung with fine black cloth edged with orris, and pieced with her escocheon, properly blazoned; and she herself, white and sharp as waxwork in her face and hands, arrayed in her black dress, with crimson ribbons and crimson ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... it will be seen that we have here the strikingly characteristic appearance of the pseudochrysalids of the Sitares, Oil-beetles and Zonites. There are the same rigid integuments, of the red of a cough-lozenge or virgin wax; the same cephalic mask, in which the future mouth-parts are represented by faintly marked tubercles; the same thoracic studs, which are the vestiges of the legs; the same distribution of the stigmata. I was therefore firmly ...

— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre

... Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... a handful of peppermint lozenges from the pocket of her skirt and offered us one each. We did not dare refuse but we each held our lozenge very gingerly ...

— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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