Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In heraldry, having the whole surface covered with lozenges or formed into lozenge-shaped divisions. This is very often depicted with exact squares set cornerwise.
Wiktionary
- adj. heraldry Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Her.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
Etymologies
- French losangé (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Doctor might have a lozengy shield with a suitable tincture, while my genial friend who occasionally imbibes could have a barry shield surmounted by a small effigy of”
“Spokes of some regularity fix the diameter of the mouth; a swaying walk and the guiding aid of the caudal appendages have laid lozengy meshes across these spokes.”
“This interlaced design, whether borne as a distinct figure, as No. 148, or repeated over the field of a Shield, as in No. 149, differs from a field lozengy or gyronny, in being a bearing charged _upon_ the field of a Shield, and not a form of varied surface:”
“Rolls is blazoned as “_masculée_”: but his Seal proves it to have been, as in No. 145, _lozengy vair and gu.”
“These two forms, which, however, are very rarely met with, should be carefully distinguished from a field lozengy.”
“Heralds; but by them the fields of Shields were divided _lozengy_ and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lozengy’.
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
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Heraldry
azure, gules, sable, vert, purpure, or, argent, ermine, vair, charge, ordinary, cross and 118 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
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Medieval heraldry...
or what I can remember of it.
gules, argent, or, azure, vert, fess, bend, sinister, chief, chevron, ermine, fleur-de-lys and 68 more...
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sionnach heraldic pattern:
lozengy Nov 3, 2007