couché

[ koo-shey ]

adjective

, Heraldry.

1. (of an escutcheon) depicted in a diagonal position, the sinister chief uppermost.

Word History and Origins

Origin of couché¹

1720–30; < French, past participle of coucher to lay down. See couch

Example Sentences

He paid $170.4 million for Amedeo Modigliani’s risqué “Nu Couché” painting a year later.

From New York Times

“We think at this stage Couche remains in the box seat, but this situation looks to have plenty left in it to run,” RBC analyst Ben Wilson said in a note on Wednesday.

From Reuters

Sotheby's handled 2018's most expensive painting, Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché, which sold for $157.2m.

From BBC

His provocations first expanded significantly beyond the pages of Le Figaro in 2006, when the TV presenter Laurent Ruquier asked him to be a panelist on his new Saturday-evening talk show, “On N’est Pas Couché.”

From New York Times

Painted in 1917 when the first world war was changing the social power of women, Nu Couché purportedly reflects that revolutionary moment as a woman lying with her back to us turns her head to look boldly out of the painting.

From The Guardian