couple-closen.
1. Heraldry. A diminutive of the chevron, having one fourth of its breadth, borne in couples, and usually cotising a chevron.
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1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie 12 A Copleclose muste containe the fourth part of the Cheuron, and is not borne but by payres, except there be a Cheuron betwene twoo of them.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. 363 A chevron between two couple-closes sa.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) iv. 57 The term Cotising is applied indifferently to Costs, Barrulets, and Couples-close.
2. A pair of rafters or couples in a roof. (See couple n. 8.)
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1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 125/1 Couple-close, a pair of spars of a roof.
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
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