Bible Dictionaries
Couche

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) Not erect; inclined; - said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

(2):

(v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Couche'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/couche.html. 1828.