couponnedadj.
1. Bearing coupons, having coupons attached.
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1881 Echo 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 n. 2a).
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [adjective] > divided into coupons
couponned1915
1915 Literary 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 n. 3); also, of a person: having to use such coupons. So coupon v. (transitive) to subject (goods) to rationing by means of coupons.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > assigned or allotted > rationed by coupons
couponned1940
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > in fixed quantities > subject (goods) to rationing
ration1870
coupon1940
1940 New Statesman 21 Dec. 649 They will..have to eat as meagrely as their couponed fellow-citizens.
1944 Ourselves in Wartime 161 When, in 1943, towels, furnishing fabrics, and household clothes were ‘couponed’, the housewife's problem really started.
1945 Daily Express 20 Apr. 2/7 But non-couponed material is so scarce—as also is couponed material—that second sober thoughts must prevail.
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