lozenn.
/ˈlɒz(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈlɑz(ə)n/, Scottish English /ˈlɔz(ə)n/ Chiefly Scottish.† 1. Cookery. ? A thin cake of pastry. Obsolete.† 2. A lozenge-shaped figure. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > thin pastry
lozen?c1390
obleya1425
abesse1725
shell-paste1752
?c1390 Form of Cury (1780) 21 Take obleys oþer wafrous [wafrons] in stede of lozeyns and cowche in dysshes.
?c1390 Form of Cury (1780) 46, 61, 62.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 40 Lay þer in Þy loseyns abofe þe chese with wynne..Þose loysyns er harde to make in fay.
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1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 60 Item ane uther dyamont ground oure with losanis ennamelit with the freir knott.
1593 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 48/2 On the vther syde ane losane with ane thrissill on euery nuke.
3.
a. A (lozenge-shaped) pane of glass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > pane
glass1439
quarrel1458
pane1466
shive1527
quarry1537
square1688
lozena1722
yolk1802
magic pane1904
a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 114 One of his servantes brook a lossen.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 100 While rains are blattrin' frae the south, An' down the lozens seepin'.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. i. 7 And who taught me to pin a losen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets?—Alan once more.
1865 C. S. Graham Mystifications 16 Lord Gillies was reminded of the time when he was an ill prettie laddie, and of breaking the lozens of one of her windows.
1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 91 The window-lozens winked with the light of big peat-fires within.
b. transferred. A glass of a pair of spectacles.
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1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge vi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 193/2 Auld Durie Squake..caught such a bash on the nose, that baith the lozens were dang out of his barnacles.
Compounds
attributive or adj. ? Embroidery with lozenge patterns.
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1507 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 253 Ane gret losin doublat for the king.
1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 239 Tua losin sarkis.
1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 148 Sic losin sarkis, So mony glengoir markis Wtin this land was nevir hard nor sene.
Derivatives
ˈlozened adj. = lozenged adj.
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1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 306 A circular Window, lozened by Arches of polished Stone meeting in the Centre.
ˈlozenless adj. rare
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1898 N. Munro John Splendid xiv The place lay tenantless and melancholy,..the windows lozenless.
†ˈlozen-wise adv.
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1625 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1726) XVIII. 236 Dyamonds cutt lozen wise.
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