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    The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped rhombus charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it...
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  • intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to suppress throat ailments Lozenge (heraldry), a diamond-shaped object that can be placed on the field of a shield...
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  • top, 19th century oval or "Iberian" shape Lozenge shape (see Lozenge section) In English heraldry, the lozenge has been used by women since the 13th century...
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  • ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards. The lozenge motif dates from the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in...
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    Irish heraldry, a woman may bear arms by inheritance from her father or by grant to herself. When unmarried, she displays her arms on a lozenge (a diamond...
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    English heraldry is the form of coats of arms and other heraldic bearings and insignia used in England. It lies within the so-called Gallo-British tradition...
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  • In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field (or a charge) may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture...
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    was substituted for the lozenge; this shape was also widely used for the arms of clerics in French, Spanish, and Italian heraldry, although it was never...
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  • In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ordinary)...
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  • Bourbon-Anjou. In Scots heraldry the escutcheon en surtout serves several different purposes. This all comes under the heading of marshalling. Lozenge: a rhombus with...
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