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Also it is one of the notable achievements of the English writers on heraldry that they should have allotted to the lozenge, when borne voided, the name of Mascle.

This “mascle” is the word of the oldest armorists for the unvoided charge, the voided being sometimes described by them as a lozenge, without further qualifications.

Fortunately the difficulty can be solved by following the late 14th-century custom in distinguishing between “lozenges” and “voided lozenges” and by abandoning altogether this misleading word Mascle.

At the siege of Carlaverok a certain knight is described as having his armour and vestments ‘masculy or and azure:’ “Son harnois et son attire Avoit masclé de or et de azure.”

The mascle is taken for the mesh of a net.