couché

See also: couche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French couché, past participle of coucher (“to lay, to lay down”). Doublet of collocate.

Adjective

couché (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Not erect; inclined.
  2. (heraldry) Lying on its side.
    A chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for couché in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

French

Pronunciation
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Participle

couché (feminine couchée, masculine plural couchés, feminine plural couchées)

  1. past participle of coucher

Adjective

couché (plural couchés)

  1. in bed
  2. lying

Derived terms

Further reading

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French coucher (“to sleep”), compare Haitian Creole kouche.

Verb

couché

  1. to sleep

References
  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
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