fusil

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As for the difference between the lozenge and fusil, I could multiply opinions and examples, but hope those given will be sufficient.

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Immediately Sir George and Guild, accompanied by a servant who was with them, started in pursuit of the intruder, and a moment afterward Dorothy heard her father's voice and the discharge of the fusil.

From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles

Gualpi que dista del anterior un tiro de fusil, es mas grande y populoso que los dos anteriores, puede tener hasta 200 familias.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Not a cry awoke the solitude—not the flash of a fusil lit up the darkness of the twilight.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

Ung petit tableau d'ivoire, � ung vieux personnaige pourtant la thoison d'or les quatres coins dudit tableau d'argent dor� et sur ung chacun ung fusil pendant � une petites chaine d'argent.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.