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The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped rhombus charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. It is to be distinguished in modern heraldry from the fusil , which is like the lozenge but narrower, though the distinction has not always been as fine and is not always observed even ...
In modern Canadian heraldry, and certain other modern heraldic jurisdictions, women may be granted their own arms and display these on an escutcheon. [citation needed] Life peeresses in England display their arms on a lozenge. [12] An oval or cartouche is occasionally also used instead of the lozenge for armigerous women.
In Scots heraldry the escutcheon en surtout serves several different purposes. This all comes under the heading of marshalling. Lozenge: a rhombus with its long axis upright, resembling the diamond of playing-cards. Fusil: a thin lozenge; very much taller than it is wide. Mascle: a voided lozenge (i.e. with a largish lozenge shaped hole)
The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. A mascle is a voided lozenge—that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle—and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole.
Ecclesiastical heraldry differs notably from other heraldry in the use of special insignia around the shield to indicate rank in a church or denomination. The most prominent of these insignia is the low crowned, wide brimmed ecclesiastical hat, commonly the Roman galero .
Lozenge or losange may refer to: Lozenge (shape), a type of rhombus; Throat lozenge, a tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to suppress throat ailments; Lozenge (heraldry), a diamond-shaped object that can be placed on the field of a shield; Les Films du Losange, a film production company; Lauzinaj, also called Lozenge, an Arab sweet
The meaning behind this particular lozenge points to individuals of noble birth, and accordingly, explain the origins of the House of Grimaldi as a high-ranking family in society. [9] The current-day relevance of this pattern for these sovereigns is rooted in their ancestor, Grimaldo Canella , whose armorial achievement consisted solely of the ...
Escutcheon: Argent, in chief between two lions rampant per fess gules and azure an ancient lamp of the last enflamed gules, and in base a like lion between two lozenges also gules. Crest: On a wreath of the colours, In front of a griffin's head argent, beaked .gules, between two wings silver, three lozenges also gules.