lozenged, a.
(ˈlɒzɪndʒd)
[f. lozenge + -ed2, after F. losangé (OF. losengié) lozengy.]
Ornamented with lozenges of alternate colours; divided into lozenges or lozenge-shaped spaces.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxix. 734 Some had cotes..losenged with whyte and blacke. 1611 Cotgr., Lozengé, lozenged. 1820 D. Turner Tour Normandy II. 186 The archivolts are encircled by two rows of lozenged squares. 1822 Gentl. Mag. XCII. i. 30 The floor is lozenged of black and white. 1847 C. Brontë J. Eyre xxviii, There shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. 1872 Browning Fifine xxx. 17 What outside was noon, Pales, through thy lozenged blue, to meek benefic moon. |