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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.
Definition 2024
couche
couche
See also: couché
French
Noun
couche f (plural couches)
- bed (any place for sleeping)
- nappy/diaper
- coat (of paint)
- layer (of soil, snow etc.)
- (chiefly in the plural) childbirth
- (chemistry) shell
Derived terms
- couche d'ozone
- fausse couche
- sous-couche
Verb
couche
- first-person singular imperfect indicative of coucher
- third-person singular imperfect indicative of coucher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of coucher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of coucher
- second-person singular imperative of coucher