COUCHE

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

2.
a.

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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