lozenge
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French losenge (“rhombus”) (French losange), from Old Provençal lausa (“flat stone”), from Gaulish; cognate with Spanish losa (“square tile”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lozenge (plural lozenges)
- A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
- Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
- The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, The Mirror and the Lamp:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, The Mirror and the Lamp:
Synonyms[edit]
- (quadrilateral): diamond (informal), rhomb, rhombus (most common in mathematics)
- (medicated sweet): pastille, throat pastille, troche
Translations[edit]
rhombus
medicated sweet
Verb[edit]
lozenge (third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged)
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
- (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
