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plural lozenges
(shapes, heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles. quotations examples
Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167
How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vani8ty Fair
The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14
A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat. quotations examples
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged
(transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge. examples
(transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge. examples