a. [f. LOZENGE + -ED2, after F. losangé (OF. losengié) LOZENGY.] Ornamented with lozenges of alternate colors; divided into lozenges or lozenge-shaped spaces.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccccxix. 734. Some had cotes … losenged with whyte and blacke.
1611. Cotgr., Lozengé, lozenged.
1820. D. Turner, Tour Normandy, II. 186. The archivolts are encircled by two rows of lozenged squares.
1822. Gentl. Mag., XCII. I. 30. The floor is lozenged of black and white.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxviii. There shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window.
1872. Browning, Fifine, xxx. 17. What outside was noon, Pales, through thy lozenged blue, to meek benefic moon.
