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    The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped rhombus charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it...
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  • intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to suppress throat ailments Lozenge (heraldry), a diamond-shaped object that can be placed on the field of a shield...
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    top, 19th century oval or "Iberian" shape Lozenge shape (see Lozenge section) In English heraldry, the lozenge has been used by women since the 13th century...
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  • ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards. The lozenge motif dates from the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in...
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    Irish heraldry, a woman may bear arms by inheritance from her father or by grant to herself. When unmarried, she displays her arms on a lozenge (a diamond...
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    In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field (or a charge) may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture...
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    English heraldry is the form of coats of arms and other heraldic bearings and insignia used in England. It lies within the so-called Gallo-British tradition...
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    was substituted for the lozenge; this shape was also widely used for the arms of clerics in French, Spanish, and Italian heraldry, although it was never...
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    In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ordinary)...
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    Bourbon-Anjou. In Scots heraldry the escutcheon en surtout serves several different purposes. This all comes under the heading of marshalling. Lozenge: a rhombus with...
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    European heraldry, mon are also named by the content of the design, even though there is no set rule for such names. Unlike in European heraldry, however...
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  • light flintlock musket used by a fusilier Fusil (heraldry), a heraldic ordinary similar to a lozenge Gerald Fusil, creator of the Raid Gauloises adventure...
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    Portuguese heraldry encompasses the modern and historic traditions of heraldry in Portugal and the Portuguese Empire. Portuguese heraldry is part of the...
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    official symbols of the municipality in 2004. It has an escutcheon in lozenge which is commonly used in municipal coats of arms of cities in Catalonia...
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    Ecclesiastical heraldry refers to the use of heraldry within Christianity for dioceses, organisations and Christian clergy. Initially used to mark documents...
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    Polish heraldry is the study of the coats of arms that have historically been used in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It treats of specifically...
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    Tolkien went through different phases in his use of heraldry; his early account of the Elvish heraldry of Gondolin in The Book of Lost Tales corresponds...
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    Naval heraldry is a form of identification used by naval vessels from the end of the 19th century onwards, after distinguishing features such as figureheads...
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    The tradition and art of heraldry first appeared in Spain at about the beginning of the eleventh century AD and its origin was similar to other European...
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    their father's arms on a lozenge, which includes any marks of cadency their father may use. This is because English heraldry has no requirement that women's...
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    that lies behind the triskelion. It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in County...
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    In heraldry, the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures, usually following the lines...
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    actual military helmets. In some traditions, especially German and Nordic heraldry, two or three helmets (and sometimes more) may be used in a single achievement...
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  • gules, cottised interlaced azure, cantoned by four lozenges sable, the fourth quarter semy of lozenges sable. Another example Argent, a saltire cottised...
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    flag, consists of a red field charged with a large blue-bordered white lozenge (diamond). Twenty-nine five-pointed stars appear on the flag: twenty-five...
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  • and Peter 11 (Duke of Brittany from 1450 to 1457). There is also a Lozenge (heraldry) of Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany. In the gable are the coats...
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    to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1672 (c 47), and lists all heraldry awarded in Scotland. Heraldry is considered to be incorporeal property in Scots law, so...
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    height and 5/8 inch in width. A cloth lozenge depicting the gold colored button design was also issued. The lozenge was approximately 1.5 inches in height...
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    2020-06-12. Media related to Flags of Europe at Wikimedia Commons Europe portal Heraldry portal Flag of Europe Armorial of Europe Flag of the Romani people Lists...
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    sides, so that it appears to be made of five squares. A Bowen knot with lozenge-shaped loops is called a bendwise Bowen knot or a Bowen cross. The Dacre...
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