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lozengy

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Searchable Lemmata: losengé (AF), losange (ME), lozengy (MdE).
Alternate Forms: lozengé, lozengee.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(adj.) Decoration; decorated with lozenges; especially in heraldry, a field decorated with lozenges or in a lozenge-pattern. Also in compounds such as bende losengé (lozengy-bendy) 'lozenges cojoined in bend', etc.(circa 1307 - post 1900 ?)
1. Pour une chambre de drap d'or lozengee des armes de France, d'Angleterre et de Brebant [AND Isabella Inventory (520) 1307/1308]
2. Monsire de Glastyngbury, d'or a un bende losengé de sable Other. [AND Ashmole Roll (4 m. 4) circa 1334]
3. (c1460) 198: The felde of gowlys and sylver and asure werre losange. The armys of Wakyrley of Almayne. Other. [MED Bk.Arms in Anc.7 (198) circa 1460]
c.f.: lozenge, fusil, mascle, mascled
AF.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF adjectival form from the noun lozenge (q.v.). OED does not have the fifteenth-century citations given by the MED; its examples of the word are from the second half of the sixteenth century in heraldic texts.
WF: Derivation
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References: Brault, G.J. (1972)
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