coupy

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English

Adjective

coupy (not comparable)

  1. (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 []