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A lozenge throughout has "four corners touching the border of the escutcheon". [1] A field covered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; similar fields of mascles are masculy, and fusils, fusily (see Variation of the field). In civic heraldry, a lozenge sable is often used in coal-mining communities to represent a lump of coal.
An ordinary with a lozenge-shaped boss is called nowy lozengy or nowy of a lozenge (applies also to saltires) Nowy and quadrate are usually applied only to the cross , saltire, pale , fess and bend.
A lozenge (/ ˈ l ɒ z ɪ n dʒ / [1] LOZ-inj; symbol: ), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and the word is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from Old French losenge ) for rhombus .
This lozenge version, supported by a blue ribbon, denotes an unmarried woman. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Male (shield-shaped) and female (lozenge-shaped) coats of arms in relief in Southwark , London. In English heraldry , the lozenge has been used by women since the 13th century [ 11 ] for the display of their coats of arms instead of the escutcheon or ...
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 natural water lily leaf. This charge is used in the heraldry of Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, but not so much in France and Britain.
Arms of women were usually depicted on lozenges. Here, her family arms are impaled with those of her husband, John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen. Due to the differing role of women in past society, special rules grew relating to the blazoning of arms for women. The rules for women and heraldry developed differently from place to place and there is ...
A throat lozenge (also known as a cough drop, sore throat sweet, troche, cachou, pastille or cough sweet) is a small, typically medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to temporarily stop coughs, lubricate, and soothe irritated tissues of the throat (usually due to a sore throat or strep throat), possibly from the common ...