An illustration of mascled armor.

Mascled Armor

An illustration of mascled armor.

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. A field covered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; similar fields of mascles are masculy, and fusils, fusily.

Mascle

A mascle is a voided lozenge-- that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle-- and the…