couché

See also: couche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French couché, past participle of coucher (“to lay, to lay down”).

Adjective

couché (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Not erect; inclined.
2. (heraldry) Lying on its side.

   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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “couché”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

couché (feminine couchée, masculine plural couchés, feminine plural couchées)

1. past participle of coucher

Adjective

couché (plural couchés)

1. in bed

Further reading

• “couché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.