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couple-close
Also -closs.
[app. f. F. couple couple + close closed, shut.]
1. Her. A diminutive of the chevron, having one fourth of its breadth, borne in couples, and usually cotising a chevron.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie 12 A Copleclose muste containe the fourth part of the Cheuron, and is not borne but by payres, except there be a Cheuron betwene twoo of them. 1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xxi. (ed. 3) 363 A chevron between two couple-closes sa. 1868Cussans Her. iv. 57 The term Cotising is applied indifferently to Costs, Barrulets, and Couples-close.
2. A pair of rafters or couples in a roof. (See couple n. 8.)
1849J. Weale Dict. Terms, Couple-close, a pair of spars of a roof. 1864in Webster. |