lozenge
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), from Old French *lose (“flag-stone”), from Vulgar Latin *lausa.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑ.zɪnd͡ʒ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈlɔz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editlozenge (plural lozenges)
- (shapes, heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167:
- Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vani8ty Fair:
- How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14:
- The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- Synonyms: pastille, throat pastille, troche, lozzy
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editrhombus
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medicated sweet
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Verb
editlozenge (third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged)
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
- (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
Further reading
editMiddle English
editNoun
editlozenge
- Alternative form of losenge
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