01 n. A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
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1.
A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.(Her.) See: Fusil
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2.
A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
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3.
Anything in the form of lozenge.
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4.
A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
Phrases & compounds
Lozenge coach —
the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge.
Lozenge-molding —
a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.