Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
lozenge .
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Examples
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Thei cary in their warres, a kind of shieldes facioned like a losenge, a quiure with shaftes, and a curtilace.
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The most self-sufficient of pens would falter at a description of design so exquisite, which is arranged in three panels with a deity in each, a composition of extraordinary grace above and below them, and a bordering band of losenge or diaper, on which is set the royal double L and the significant dolphin who gave his name to kings 'sons.
The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905
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Thei cary in their warres, a kind of shieldes facioned like a losenge, a quiure with shaftes, and a curtilace.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'In GotTs Notes, a Funeral Book, is a sketch in a losenge of the arm* with twenty quarterings, impaling the arm* of Pscreputnf with eghtces quarterings for the Lady Manners, who died at her lodgings a I levt. itrrrt, in February 1650. ami buried at - in Detby»hinj she was tl of Pierepoint.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812
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I would speak a man civilly, whether I loved him or no; that 'longeth to my gentlehood, not his: but to blandish and losenge him [coax and flatter], and say ` I love thee well 'and ` Thou art fairest and wisest of all' twenty times in a day, when in mine heart I wished him full far thence, and accounted of him as fond and ussome [foolish and ugly] -- that could I never demean me to do, an 'I lived to the years of Methuselah.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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