The restriction of the lozenge to the arms of ladies has clearly therefore no medieval precedent, and there is not any reason why the modern custom should not be set aside when for artistic reasons a shield or roundel is preferable.
That of William Paynel, appended to the Barons' Letter, also has his arms on a lozenge (pl.
Lozenge of arms from the monument at Westminster of Frances Brandon duchess of Suffolk, ob.
Lozenge of arms from the monument at Westminster of Frances Brandon duchess of Suffolk (ob.
The bases and pedestals are covered either with carving or inlaid chequer and lozenge patterns.
Some are chevroned, others of lozenge pattern, or billeted, or twisted and spiral.
On the pavement beneath is a red and white lozenge of marble marking the spot where Pope Alexander III.
The dress of the bride is a white silk robe with a lozenge pattern, over an under-robe, also of white silk.
And you gave me a ginger lozenge with your name written on it in lead pencil, and I gave you a cough-lozenge with mine; and you said it was to show that you were my sweetheart and I was yours.
Why, here's a good sound sassafras lozenge in my pocket.
Prince broke his unexpected lozenge into honest halves and presented her solemnly with one of them.
There was never such a good sassafraslozenge before or since, and Pepper trotted steadily home to her stall and the last end of her supper.
Lozenge or diamond shape; the four edges straight or nearly so, varying a little toward convexity or concavity.
Lozenge shape is frequently met with, and this I am inclined to favour most, as there being an acute angle at each end there is a corresponding increase of holding surface with the least amount of wood.
There is a method much to be deprecated that was fashionable in some parts of Europe in the last century, of strengthening the middle joint of the back by first cutting out a lozenge or square space and then fitting and filling with a stud.
In fact, what remained of the peppermint lozenge had somehow jolted into his windpipe, and kept him occupied with the earlier symptoms of strangulation.
The part shaved is in the shape of a lozenge two and a half inches by two inches respectively from angle to angle.
In the tattoos the lozenge pattern and bands are the two more commonly used.
On one side the outline is almost angular, instead of forming a regular sweep, so that it shows how easy is the passage from the leaf-shape to the lozenge form.
Wherein in Lozenge figured boxes nature shuts up the seeds, and balsame which is about them.
A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets, and Lozenge seeds of the noble flower of the Sunne.
The divisions are of the lozenge shape; in each lozenge of the central line is a figure, and in each alternate one of the sides.
The reverse side shows a lozenge pattern, and each one of the spaces contains a fleur de lis, emphasised at the corner by a square.
This blackness intensified the glory of the April world outside whose luminous greens and blues were held like blazonry in the leaded lozenge panes.
Another peculiarity of this charmingly toned west front is that the rose window is of a peculiar lozenge shape, "neither square nor round," as one authority puts it.
Like that of St. Gatien at Tours it is of an uncertain lozenge shape, while the effect is further lessened by the mediocrity of its glass and framing.
The design and arrangement of a series of lancets supporting the lozenge would be remarkable, were it in company with the best glass of the middle ages.
The bear was not injured at all, but the cord had worn a straight line around John's body, although not very deep; and in some way the gingerbread man had lost another of his lozenge buttons.
His left shoulder was also blackened with burned powder, and he had lost one of the lozenge buttons from his red vest.
It is in the centre of the lozenge that the Moslem places the stone or bit of earth when at prayer.
Some of the forms are in the lozenge design, with colors in red and yellow, the reds containing fine shadings of blue.
Often dark blues and reds form the groundwork, in the centre of which is a lozenge or large diamond form ornamented with small designs of the palm leaf.
Often a part of the larger lozenge forms are indented at both top and bottom.
I remember his laying his finger on the clean lozenge of the painted window one day when we three were alone together in the hall.
While he was gone the caliph drew a lozenge of benj--a powerful opiate--from the inner recesses of his dress and dropped it into the goblet, which he quickly filled with wine.
Now the caliph had ordered that a lozenge of benj should be placed in one of the goblets, and this reserved till the last.
The ground is of madder red, decorated with leaves and scrolls and lozenge-shaped forms in red, white, and orange, each lozenge being defined by a deep line of indigo blue.
In some of them is a large central diamond or lozenge surrounded by latch-hooks, as well as floral forms so conventionalised as to be purely geometric; now and then Arabic symbols and letters are scattered over the field.
The lozenge is an inconvenient form, and it is broadened out whenever possible.
She had three sisters, one of whom married John Parker, and these two would have used the same coat-of-arms within a lozenge before their marriage.
When a wife's coat is shown on an escutcheon of Pretence in the centre of her husband's shield, it loses its lozenge form.
Illustration] The badge of a Tudor rose, as before, royally crowned, within a lozenge of laurel leaves.
The coat shown on a lozenge is that of a lady of the Gulston family, possibly a daughter of the Bishop.
