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Lozenge - Wikipedia Mirror Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus — a rhombus with acute angles of 45° or greater.Definition of lozenge at Mathworld web site The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry and as decoration on ceramics, silverware, and textiles. The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. A mascle is a voided lozenge-- that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle-- and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole. www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php?title=Lozenge   (289 words)

Lozenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry and as decoration on ceramics, silverware, and textiles. The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. A mascle is a voided lozenge-- that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle-- and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lozenge   (302 words)

Heraldry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Heraldry is the science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. The first rule of heraldry is the rule of tincture: metal (bright tinctures) must never be placed upon metal, nor colour (dark tinctures) upon colour, for the sake of contrast; except where this cannot be avoided, as in the case of a charge overlying a partition of the field. In English heraldry the crescent, mullet (a star with straight rays, which originally represented a spur), martlet, annulet, fleur-de-lis and rose may be added to a shield to distinguish cadet branches of a family from the senior line. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Heraldry   (3824 words)

Heraldry - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Heraldry is the science and art of describing coats-of-arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings. The first thing the blazon describes is the tincture (colour) of the field (background) (though in some cases of "landscape heraldry" all or part of the field is some sort of landscape), and then it describes the placement and tinctures of the different charges (objects) on the shield. In heraldry, a motto is often depicted in a coat of arms, typically on a scroll under the arms, or else above it as in Scots heraldry. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Heraldry   (3228 words)

Lozenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. In modern English and Scottish, but not Canadian, heraldry, the arms of an unmarried woman are usually shown on a lozenge rather than an escutcheon, without crest or helm; a cartouche is occasionally also used. Married women also have the option of using their husband's arms on an escutcheon, using a small lozenge as with a brisure; divorced women may theoretically until remarriage use their ex-husband's arms differenced with a mascle. www.encyclopedia-online.info /Lozenge   (420 words)

Lozenge (heraldry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is to be distinguished in modern heraldry from the fusil, which is like the lozenge but narrower, though the distinction has not always been as fine and is not always observed even today. The lozenge has for many centuries been particularly associated with women as a vehicle for the display of their coats of arms (instead of the escutcheon or shield). In modern English and Scottish, but not Canadian, heraldry, the arms of an unmarried woman and of widows are usually shown on a lozenge rather than an escutcheon, without crest or helm. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lozenge_(heraldry)   (301 words)

Armoria familia - Women and heraldry The lozenge is the mark of the single woman, either as a spinster or as a widow. The one drawback of the lozenge is its narrowness, which means that the contents of the (man’s) shield have to be constricted to fit into it. The solution proposed for this is for her to display two separate shields acollé, the arms of her marriage on the dexter side, and those of her office (the official arms impaling her father’s coat) on the sinister. www.geocities.com /barensteel/women.html   (1672 words)

Heraldry: definitions and terms When a lozenge is voided, that is, represented only in outline with the tincture of the field showing inside, it is called a mascle; when it is pierced with a round opening it is called a rustre. In heraldry the crest is represented attached to the top of the helmet; its base is surrounded by a wreath, a circlet of twisted ribbons tinctured of the principal metal and colors of the shield. Differencing From the earliest days of heraldry, only the head of a family has the right to inherit unchanged the entire paternal arms; junior branches of the family difference their arms by changing certain tinctures, or by substituting charges, as three mullets for three billets. dede.essortment.com /heraldryterms_rznk.htm   (2465 words)

HERALDRY Historically, heraldry began as a mark of identification in social intercourse and found its full flowering as a useful art in the Middle Ages, when it came to be used to distinguish the warriors on the battlefield. She is granted the right to use a coat of arms bearing the arms of her father or husband, but not on a shield. Until her marriage, she used her father's arms in a lozenge, and oftentimes surmounted it with a true lover's knot of light blue ribbon. www.angelfire.com /id/langford/heraldry.html   (1078 words)

Middle Eastern Heraldry Islamic heraldry usually consisted of a single primary charge, 2 primary charges in pale on a divided field between a fess, or an arrangement of 1 or 2 charges in fess to chief, 1 or 2 charges to base, and 1 charge or 1 charge between 2 identical charges on the fess. Islamic heraldry would be allowed to break the rules of tincture by using brown and "self-colored", and by not requiring good contrast between a fess and a field. Islamic heraldry would be allowed to break the layering rule by allowing the "primary charge" on a fess to be charged with another charge, as long as the primary charge was not obscured. www.s-gabriel.org /docs/saracen-heraldry.html   (1097 words)

Blair Heraldry Heraldry, or Armory, developed in feudal Western Europe during the 12th Century as a means of identifying a Knight in battle. In Scotland, the earliest known example of Heraldry is the Stewart Arms on a seal in 1170. The mascles, or voided lozenges, were supposed to represent the belt buckles and armor buckles used on a Knight’s apparel. blairsociety.org /heraldry.htm   (2006 words)

Heraldry - Origins and Meanings of Heraldry, Coats of Arms and Family Crests istorically, heraldry began as a mark of identification in social intercourse and found its full flowering as a useful art in the Middle Ages, when it came to be used to distinguish the warriors on the battlefield. The use of heraldry and coats of arms in the United States is a matter of personal taste. Heraldry on the Internet, the web's premier site for heraldry research, coats of arms and family crests. heraldryorigins.tripod.com   (1105 words)

More on Heraldry Its origins are in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted on their shields. The colours used in heraldry are referred to as tinctures. For many more people, heraldry is seen as a part of their national, and even personal, heritage, as well as being a manifestation of civic and national pride. www.eduhistory.com /heraldry.htm   (2610 words)

Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry - H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) For a single woman, her arms are placed upon a lozenge, bordered with knotted ribbons, also on a fl ground. For a married man (as seen in the illustration), his arms impale those of his wife, unless she be an heiress, when they are placed on an escutcheon of pretense, the crest and other appendages added, the dexter half of the ground being fl and the sinister white. Heraldry - The art or science of blazoning or describing in proper terms coats of arms. digiserve.com /heraldry/pimb_h.htm   (1030 words)

Symbolism - lozenge The lozenge is a symbol of honesty and constancy and it is also a token of noble birth. Lozenges cojoined to form a fesse or a pale are referred to as a ‘bend lozengy’ or a ‘fesse lozengy,’ or a field may be described as ‘lozengy’ when it is formed entirely of an indefinite number of lozenges. A mascle is an open lozenge, or a lozenge voided, and it is merely a lozenge with a smaller one removed from the inside. www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/keyword.lozenge/email.yes/qx/symbolism_details.htm   (228 words)

Heraldry - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) heraldry, system in which inherited symbols, or devices, called charges are displayed on a shield, or escutcheon, for the purpose of identifying individuals or families. The use of personal and family insignia is ancient (it is mentioned by Homer), but heraldry proper is a feudal institution developed by noblemen using personal insignia on seals and shields that came to be transmitted to their families. Heraldry is the science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats-of-arms (also referred to as "armorial bearings" or simply as "arms"). heraldry.quickseek.com   (3421 words)

Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How Heraldry is the knowledge and art of describing coats of arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings. However, in heraldry, a crest is just one component of a coat of arms. Heraldry is still practised today, especially in monarchies such as the United Kingdom. www.irelandinformationguide.com /test/index.php/Heraldry   (2387 words)

Assorted Lessons in SCA Heraldry: Slot Machine Heraldry Slot machine heraldry gets returned without fail, so it is to your benefit to be able to identify it and advise your submitter how to correct the problem. Argent, on a fess sable a lozenge between a roundel and an annulet Or. Argent, on a fess sable a lozenge between an increscent and a decrescent Or. www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/lessons/lesson02.html   (628 words)

Heraldry This discussion is intended to illustrate what was once a practice in English heraldry. It is not a common practice to difference arms between family members today, probably because the arms are used more to show relationship rather than distinction as on a medieval tournament field. The exception is for Scots, whose heralds employ a complicated system of differencing among brothers of different birth order as well as different generations,, using bordures as well as changing charges and tinctures. users.adelphia.net /~hwaller/Heraldry.htm   (443 words)

Armorial Gold Heraldry Dictionary They are False Heraldry, in as much as it is impossible so to blazon them in heraldic terms that a person can paint or engrave them without having seen the original grant. The arms of all Maidens and Widows are borne in a Lozenge. Heraldry art samples are provided as a courtesy to potential buyers and the heraldry samples remain the property of Armorial Gold Heraldry Services. www.heraldryclipart.com /dl.html   (1615 words)

The Heraldry Society - coat of arms A fine plate in the 1983 edition of Boutell's Heraldry illustrates various styles of ladies arms - a peeress in her own right, a spinster, a widow, a widow who is an heiress and, an heraldic solecism, those of a corporation whose members are all women. Evidence drawn from seal impressions show that both lozenges and roundels were employed to contain the arms of men, and it is likely that they were the invention of matrix engravers, introduced to give variety to their creations and more conveniently to conform to prevailing sigillistic fashion. The circular seal of Edward of Caernarvon as Prince of Wales (c1301) had the whole of the reverse devoted to the lions of England, and two seals of John of Gaunt (c1372) were treated similarly. www.theheraldrysociety.com /publications/187.htm   (321 words)

The Points of Heraldry Heraldry: the art of devising, blazoning, and granting armorial insignia and the tracing and recording of genealogies. This lozenge often with her husband's insignia, is displayed as a badge on clothing or appropriate possessions and reflects her husband or father's honor. Women descended from noble houses on their own account may have their insignia displayed alongside her husbands in a "quartering" of the lozenge, where the two families insignia or "arms" are displayed in alternating quarter panels of the shield. www.geocities.com /pheon.geo/heraldry.htm   (2552 words)

Beginners Heraldry, The Heraldry Society of Scotland - UK Heraldry Men bear their arms on a shield and women on a lozenge or more recently on an oval, although this is not a binding rule. According to the Scottish laws of heraldry, a younger son has no right to his father’s arms but must petition to matriculate from those of his father his own arms, which will be differenced from his father’s. This differencing is often done with a bordure, according to the Stodart system, depending on the birth order of the son: the second son would have a bordure Or (gold), the third Argent (silver), the fourth Gules (red), the fifth Azure (blue) and the sixth Sable (fl). www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk /beginners.html   (880 words)

Bio at BlinkBits. heraldry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The descent of arms was and remains strictly regulated by inheritance; only certain actual descendents of a particular armigerous (arms-bearing) person are entitled to his arms or a differenced version of them andmdash; hence popular associations of a coat of arms with all bearers of a surname are based on a misconception. Main article: TinctureThe first rule of heraldry is the rule of tincture: metal (bright tinctures) must never be placed upon metal, nor colour (dark tinctures) upon colour, for the sake of contrast; except where this cannot be avoided, as in the case of a charge overlying a partition of the field. This over-specialisation is peculiar to English heraldry; in French heraldry, for example, metal roundels are bezants and all others (colours and furs) are tourteaux. www.blinkbits.com /bits/viewforum/heraldry_bio?f=5085   (6422 words)

Arms at St. Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne If you have an interest in Heraldry I have a roll of some 1200 blazons of arms, crests and some other relevant details associated with the counties of Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. On a lozenge shaped shield argent, a fess between three cocks-heads erased sable, combed and wattled gules, within a border azure, charged with eight ducal crowns or. As a woman's arms it would be expected to be on a lozenge so probably her husbands. www.sandmartyn.freeserve.co.uk /Heraldry/roll02/hsac.html   (1165 words)

YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> lozenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) {{mainLozenge (heraldry)}} The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. {{mainCough drop}} Cough tablets have taken the name lozenge, based on their original shape. It is also found at Unicode 0x25CA and can be typed with andloz; (or and#9674;), which will produce ◊. www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/lozenge   (295 words)

Scottish Heraldry Heraldry first developed in the 12th century in Europe as an outgrowth of chivalric culture. In Scots heraldry there can be a tendency to "go downmarket" in the use of helms so people should not be surprised to see say, the arms of a Duke with a simple form of helm such as a tilting helm. The Heraldry Society of Scotland was founded in 1977 and exists to promote knowledge and use of heraldry in Scotland. albanach.org /scotheraldry.html   (2099 words)

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