lozenge
lozenge Lexical Profile
lozenge Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small, flavored or medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to soothe a sore throat or deliver medicine.
"She sucked on a cherry-flavored lozenge to suppress her cough during the lecture."
A four-sided planar figure with equal sides and two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhombus or diamond shape.
"The stained glass window was decorated with a repeating pattern of interlocking lozenges."
A diamond-shaped bearing or charge in heraldry, historically often used to display the coats of arms of women.
"The family crest featured a silver lozenge centered on a field of azure."
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French 'losenge' (meaning rhombus or diamond shape), which is of uncertain origin, possibly deriving from a pre-Roman or Celtic word for a flat stone.
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