couché adjective2 •Inclined at an angle.Azure, semé of tratti or billets couché or, two lions passant in pale of the same. — 1866 •Couched: issuing from the side of the shield rather than the bottom or top.A chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
