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Webster 1913 Edition
Couche
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Couˊché′
(k??ˊsh?′)
, 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.