"Couple-Close" is a word in ENGLISH
A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at
their feet, or with a collar beam.
A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of
its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a
chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two
couple-closes or chevron cottised.
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Following some duty overseas, the officers at the Fort were planning a welcome home party and dance for the unit. Being an all male combat force, they decided to request coeds from some of the surrounding colleges to attend. The Captain called Vassar and was assured by the Dean that arrangements could be made to send over a dozen of their most trustworthy students. The Captain hesitated, then said, "Would it also be possible to send a dozen or so of the other kind?"
A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
Read the complete definitionA distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
Read the complete definitionOne of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from …
Read the complete definitionHaving a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
Read the complete definitionA bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
Read the complete definitionIn the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.
Read the complete definitionLying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has …
Read the complete definitionA process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as haemal spines, and …
Read the complete definitionA charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, …
Read the complete definitionBroken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.
Read the complete definitionThe chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
Read the complete definitionSituated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.
Read the complete definitionA molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
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