Also -closs. [app. f. F. couple couple + close closed, shut.]
1. Her. A diminutive of the chevron, having one fourth of its breadth, borne in couples, and usually cotising a chevron.
1572. Bossewell, 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. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xxi. (ed. 3), 363. A chevron between two couple-closes sa.
1868. Cussans, Her., 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 sb. 8.)
1849. J. Weale, Dict. Terms, Couple-close, a pair of spars of a roof.
1864. in Webster.
