different between lozenge vs rustre

English

Alternative forms

• losenge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), from Old French *lose (“flag-stone”), from Vulgar Latin *lausa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?z?nd?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?z?nd?/

Noun

lozenge (plural lozenges)

1. (shapes, heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.

   Synonyms: (informal) diamond, rhomb, (most common in mathematics) rhombus

   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:

     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 [...].

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vani8ty Fair, Chapter 9:

     How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 14:

     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.

2. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.

   Synonyms: pastille, throat pastille, troche

Derived terms

• lozenge coach

Translations

Verb

lozenge (third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged)

1. (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
2. (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

Further reading

• lozenge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

lozenge

1. Alternative form of losenge

English

Etymology

From French

Noun

rustre (plural rustres)

1. (heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller round hole in the centre, showing the field (rarely used).

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yst?/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin rusticus. Doublet of rustique.

Adjective

rustre (plural rustres)

1. uncouth

Noun

rustre m or f (plural rustres)

1. a bumpkin, a yokel (person from the countryside)
2. a lout
3. a hulk

Synonyms

• (yokel): plouc

Etymology 2

From German Raute.

Noun

rustre m (plural rustres)

1. (heraldry) rustre

Further reading

• “rustre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).