[MR] Heraldic Term of the Day - Couped

[Becky McEllistrem]

STOP My tongue already hurts!  <grin>

Rebecca

--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Beverly Robinson-Curry <brcurry at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Beverly Robinson-Curry <brcurry at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [MR] Heraldic Term of the Day - Couped
> To: AtlantianHeralds at yahoogroups.com, atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:09 AM
> And since my previous post opened the
> door…
> 
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> 
> >From _A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry_ by James
> Parker:
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> “Couped, or Coupy, (fr. alaisé), cut off in a straight
> line, as in often the
> case with the heads
> <http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglossh.htm#Head> 
> and limbs of
> animals, and so distinguished form erased… It is
> important to say where a
> head or limbs is couped; for instance, if couped close it
> would signify cut
> off close to the head. A hand
> <http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglossh.htm#Hand> 
> is often said
> to be couped at the wrist.”
> 
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> 
> Example:  http://rolls.westkingdom.org/  (see
> Adrian Freyser)
> 
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> 
> Ordinaries can also be “couped”, whereby they are
> “cut off” before the edge
> of the field.
> 
>  
> 
> Example: http://op.atlantia.sca.org/awards.php
> (see Academie d’Espee)
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> Rhiannon
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> Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill
> 
> Triton Principal Herald
> 
> House Corvus, Atlantia
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