Rhumbus vs Lozenge - What's the difference?
rhumbus | lozenge |
(shapes) (heraldiccharge) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a (soplink).
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, title= To form into the shape of a lozenge.
To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
As a noun lozenge is
(shapes) (heraldiccharge) a quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.As a verb lozenge is
to form into the shape of a lozenge.rhumbus
Not English
Rhumbus has no English definition. It may be misspelled.lozenge
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
- 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.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}