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Couche   Listen
adjective
Couche  adj.  (Her.)
(a)
Not erect; inclined; said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
(b)
Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.





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"Couche" Quotes from Famous Books



... saw a stately Bed, Adorned all with costly cloth of gold, That might for anie princes couche be red*, And deckt with daintie flowres, as if it shold Be for some bride, her ioyous night to hold: 635 Therein a goodly virgine sleeping lay; A fairer wight saw never summers ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser


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