Couped, or COUPÉ, in Heraldry, is used to describe the head, or any limb of an animal cut off in a straight line. It is distinguished from erased—i.e. forcibly torn off, and therefore ragged and uneven.
Couped
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 523
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