a. Forms: 6–7 lozengie, 7 losengy, lozengee, 8 lozengé, 9 lozengée, 7– lozengy. [a. OF. losangié (13th c.), f. losange LOZENGE.]
1. Her. Of a field: Covered with lozenges of alterate tinctures; divided into lozenges. † Also of a bearing: Shaped like a lozenge.
1562. Leigh, Armorie, 157. He beareth Losengye, Argent, and Sable.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 38 b. One fermaulx lozengie, Gules.
1610. [see LOZENGEWAYS.]
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Lozengé, Lozangy … is a Shield or an Ordinary of all Lozenges.
1864. Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3), 35. A Field Lozengy … is divided into Lozenge-shaped figures. Ibid., 361. Lozengée erm. and sa.
b. Lozengy barry, divided into lozenges, which are divided again horizontally. Lozengy-bendy (see quot. 1838). † Lozengy in point (see quot. 1688). † Semi-lozengy (see quot. 1612).
1612. Peacham, Gentl. Exerc., III. 160. If ther be aboue the number as I said of fiue and twentie or sixe and twentie, you must say Semi-lozengie.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, I. 105/2. He beareth Gules, two Piles Barwise Argent…. This is by others Blazoned, a pale Losengie in point, or extending to the sides … of the Escochion.
1838. Penny Cycl., XII. 142/1. [A shield Fusily] if parted per pale and per bend, would be either Lozengy-bendy, or Fusily-bendy, according to the width of the space between the lines.
2. transf. a. Resembling a lozenge, lozenge-like. b. Composed of or divided into lozenges.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 99 b. In the mouth of the harbour, lyeth S. Nicholas Iland, in fashion, losengy.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 125. The Choir … is paved Lozengy, black and white.
1845. M. A. Lower, Rep. to Brit. Archæol. Assoc., Nov. A lozengy or network pattern.
