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observed even today. A mascle is a voided lozenge--that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle--and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole in the centre. A lozenge throughout has "four corners touching the border of the escutcheon". A field covered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; similar fields of mascles are masculy, and fusils, fusily (see Variation of the field). In civic heraldry,

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