coupy
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Adjective[edit]
coupy (not comparable)
- (heraldry, obsolete) Alternative form of coupé i.e. couped.
- 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 269:
- William MEINARD, Lord MEINARD, Argent, a Cheveron Azure, between three sinister Hands erected coupy, at the Wrest Gules. This Family was ancient in England; the Heads of which served under Prince Edward, called the Black Prince […]
- 1925, Willoughby Aston Littledale, A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants, Crests, Confirmations, Augmentations and Exemplifications of Arms in the Mss. Preserved in the British Museum, Ashmolean Library, Queen's College, Oxford, and Elsewhere, page 15:
- [...] hee may bee Distinguished from the vulgar sort of people and thereupon haue assigned unto him this Coate and Creast ensewing, vidzt Argent three Torteuxes and a cheife Gules and for his Creast a horse head Coupy Argent mained […]