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What's the English translation for "losange pleins"?
No laughing. The rules allow for dumb questions. I checked. 
The GO website description of the Senator Navigator reads in part, "[t]he losange pleins hands inlaid with green luminous substance... ." (emphasis added) I've wondered what this meant for some time, and tonight I decided to investigate.
After some searching, I've come to the conclusion that "losange pleins" is French for "full rhombus," as in large, oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram hands. According to the dictionary, the root of rhombus is [Origin: 1560–70; < L < Gk rhómbos anything that may be spun around, deriv. of rhémbein to revolve
] , which would be an apt description for the hands of a watch.
Am I on the right track?
This message has been edited by Downing on 2008-01-29 20:02:59 This message has been edited by Downing on 2008-01-29 20:04:19
What's the English translation for "losange pleins"?
No laughing. The rules allow for dumb questions. I checked. The GO website description of the Senator Navigator reads in part, "[t]he losange pleins hands inlaid with green luminous substance... ." (emphasis added) I've wondered what this meant for some t...
