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coudé
/ kuːˈdeɪ /
adjective
- (of a reflecting telescope) having plane mirrors positioned to reflect light from the primary mirror along the axis onto a detector
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coudé1
French, literally: bent in the shape of an elbow, from coude an elbow
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Example Sentences
After Macrobeus understand coude (from l. 283), which governs the infin.
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The coude and genouillire are both smaller than in the Gothic suit, and fit more closely to the limbs.
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The left arm being defended by the target has no espalier or pauldron, but only coude, vambraces, and gauntlets.
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And som honest and grete clerkes haue ben wyth me, and desired me to wryte the moste curyous termes that I coude fynde.
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And we answered my lorde/ that the lad coude not goo from his father/ for if he shulde leaue his father/ he were but a deed man.
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