made up of alternating metal and colour, colour and fur, or fur and metal
Word origin
C16: from Old French componé, from copon piece, coupon
compony in American English
(kəmˈpouni)
adjective
Heraldry
composed of a single row of squares, metal and color alternating; gobony
Also: componé (kəmˈpouni, French kɔ̃pɔˈnei)
Word origin
[1565–75; ‹ MF compone, nasalized var. of copone, equiv. to coponcoupon + -e-ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1565–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: broadside, casing, excursion, idiom, node