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losenga [AN, OF, ME losenge] 1 figure of rhomboid shape, lozenge: a (var.); b (her.); c (mus., in description of shape of written note). a 1315 item alba ‥ consuta de diversis armis in ~is cum frectis purpureis Invent. Ch. Ch. 60 (cf. (v. 1 frettura)); duo [tapeta] minora de diversis coloribus, repleta lozengis cum floribus de liz Whittlesey 169; 1340 pro ij platis argenti ‥ aymellatis in fundo de armis Damory et lesengis de armis Gloucestrie TR Bk 203 f. 30v; 1340 una cupa ingravata de alta sculpture aymellata de ~is et triangulis Ib. 402; 1385 item una capa rubea de panno adaurato cum avibus operatis in losingis (Invent. Windsor) MonA VI 1363b; lozingis Ib. 1366a (v. gobonatus); 1449 alius [discus signatur] cum quaterfoill’ et j lozeng’ in fundo disci CalExch II 206.  b sunt et alii qui portant lodisingos, et sunt breviores quam fusuli ‥; et sunt lodisingi quasi scaccaria angulatim versa. et hic portat de argento cum sex lodisingis de rubeo, Gallice, il port d’argent sex losinges de goul Bad. Aur. 135; ~e fiunt in armis beudatis ‥; ~e semper stant recte, quarum anguli superiores recte respiciunt in caput scuti [cf. Upton 251] Ib. 200.  c si major, sic formabitur [sc. semibrevis], ad modum losonge habens subtus se tractum in obliquum Haudlo 108; quandocunque punctus vel nota formatur ad modum losonge [v. l. ~e] sive ad modum grani ordeacei, semibrevis dicitur Hauboys 254; semibrevis perfecta est figura formata ad modum ~e, i. e. habens latera equalia Will. 26. 2 object of rhomboid shape, lozenge. 1419 de ‥ vj loseng’ de pergameno continent’ dim. granum, j alia pecia de papiro continent’ viij grana Ac. Foreign 52A.

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