different between lozenge vs troches

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

Noun

troches

1. plural of troche

Anagrams

• hectors, orchets, rochets, rotches, scoreth, tochers, torches