couple-closen.

Forms: Also couple-closs.

Etymology: apparently < French couple couple + close closed, shut.

1. Heraldry. A diminutive of the chevron, having one fourth of its breadth, borne in couples, and usually cotising a chevron.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > chevron > specific

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1572 J. Bossewell Wks. 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.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. 363 A chevron between two couple-closes sa.

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) 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.)

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1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 125/1 Couple-close, a pair of spars of a roof.

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	couple-close
释义	couple-closen. Forms: Also couple-closs. Etymology: apparently < French couple couple + close closed, shut. 1. Heraldry. A diminutive of the chevron, having one fourth of its breadth, borne in couples, and usually cotising a chevron. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > chevron > specific chevron rompee1395 chevronel1572 couple-close1572 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. 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. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. 363 A chevron between two couple-closes sa. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) 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.) ΚΠ 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 125/1 Couple-close, a pair of spars of a roof. 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1572
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