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Noun

lozenge (plural lozenges)

  • (shapes, heraldry) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
    • ✤ Alternative form: (uncommon) lozenze
    • ✤ Synonym: (informal) diamond
    • ✤ Hypernym: (most common in mathematics) rhombus
    • ✤ 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 […].1
    • ✤ How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!2
    • ✤ His sloppy socks were of scarlet wool with lilac lozenges; […]3
    • ✤ 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.4
  • A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
    • ✤ Synonyms: pastille, throat pastille, troche, lozzy
    • ✤ 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.5
    • ✤ In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.6

Verb

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.
  • To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

Etymology

From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/
  • (Australian) IPA: /ˈlɔzɪnd͡ʒ/
    • Audio (Australian): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɒzɪndʒ

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Footnotes

  1. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167: ↩

  2. 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair: ↩

  3. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1.1, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 7: ↩

  4. 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14: ↩

  5. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: ↩

  6. 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times ‎, archived from the original on 9 May 2012: ↩

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