Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed in the shape of a lozenge.
- In zoology
- Rhomboidal or rhombic.
- Divided by raised lines into rhomboidal or lozenge-shaped spaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.
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Examples
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It was a large pack of seventy-eight cards, their reverse face covered in the same blue and white lozenged pattern that appeared in the Palatine crest, opposite the lions.
Book of Emblems Young Geoffrion 2009
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It was a large pack of seventy-eight cards, their reverse face covered in the same blue and white lozenged pattern that appeared in the Palatine crest, opposite the lions.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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But by and large, Judy considered that all was in fine repair, the old cabinets and wide-planked floors, even the small red-and-blue-lozenged stained-glass window over the front door, which she knew — Bert had discovered it; he loved researching such things — had been ordered from a Sears catalogue all the way back at the turn of the last century.
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A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with
Kenilworth 2004
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The little apothecary hesitated for a moment, his eyes narrowed against the glare of the morning sun that shone through the lozenged panes behind me.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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This chamber was raftered, its walls hung with an obscure tapestry, its floor strewn with sand, and its lozenged casement partly shuttered against the blaze of sunshine that flowed across the forests far away to the west.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows.
The Witch of Prague 1881
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At the borders, it is a gossamer weft of sparse threads; nearer the centre, the texture becomes first fine muslin and then satin; lower still, on the narrower part of the opening, it is a network of roughly lozenged meshes.
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The blue and yellow Saxon flag, with the black and yellow chevron in the field and a lozenged chaplet from the left corner to the top, was more frequently seen than any other banner.
Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.
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