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What is a mascle?

What is a mascle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A lozenge-shaped piece of metal, used in making scale-mail armour.
  2. (heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.
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In the early days of Heraldry the Lozenge and the mascle were evidently held to be identical.
The mascle is afterwards explained to be the lozenge pierced.
If you don't want any one to see you, we will go along by the mascle.
The fret itself is an interwoven cross with a mascle, and both are indicative of service in the Crusades.
A woman whose marriage has been dissolved bears on a lozenge her paternal arms, charged for the purpose of distinction with a mascle.

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