1. lozenge - Noun
2. lozenge - Verb
A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
Anything in the form of lozenge.
A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAinger, p. 230 Gilbert was much hurt, but Sullivan insisted that he could not set the "lozenge plot." Source: Internet
Dodging the magic lozenge The Mikado main Lithograph of the "Three Little Maids" from The Mikado The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. Source: Internet
One shape alone is normally reserved for a specific purpose: the lozenge, a diamond-shaped escutcheon, was traditionally used to display the arms of women, on the grounds that shields, as implements of war, were inappropriate for this purpose. Source: Internet
Ainger, pp. 259–61 For their next piece, Gilbert submitted another version of the magic lozenge plot; Sullivan immediately rejected it. Source: Internet
Gilbert first suggested a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge – a scenario that Sullivan had previously rejected. Source: Internet
The most common symbol, adopted for about 20 years, had been a white lozenge with the flower inside. Source: Internet