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couponned, ppl. a.
Also couponed.
[f. coupon n. + -ed2.]
1. Bearing coupons, having coupons attached.
1881Echo 28 June 1/1 Promissory notes, with or without coupons, or couponned certificates payable to bearer, will be issued for sums of Rs. 500.
2. Divided into coupons (cf. coupon 2 a).
1915Lit. Digest 4 Sept. 484/2 (Advt.), Couponed Pages..—Six coupons to a page. Put each note on a separate coupon—tear it out when it ceases to be of value.
3. Applied to goods subjected to rationing by means of coupons (see coupon 3); also, of a person: having to use such coupons. So coupon v. trans., to subject (goods) to rationing by means of coupons.
1940New Statesman 21 Dec. 649 They will..have to eat as meagrely as their couponed fellow-citizens. 1944Ourselves in Wartime 161 When, in 1943, towels, furnishing fabrics, and household clothes were ‘couponed’, the housewife's problem really started. 1945Daily Express 20 Apr. 2/7 But non-couponed material is so scarce—as also is couponed material—that second sober thoughts must prevail. |