Handbook of Heraldry Inescutcheon is always supposed to be a real object laid upon the shield, its outline must be drawn and shaded accordingly. The Lozenge is a diamond-shaped figure set perpendicu- … Fig. 123. larly on the shield (fig. 124). It may be of any tincture, asin the Arms cf Sir John de Creke (fig. 10), which wereOr : on a Fess gu/es, three Lozenges vair. It may also becharged. The Fusil is an elongated Lozenge (fig. 125). I am in-clined to think that the Fusil was originally the head…
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