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▪ I. † ˈculpon, n. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 culpoun, coulpon, 4– culpon, (5 colpon, 6 culpown, -in, -yn; Sc. 6–7 cowpon, coupon, 9 coopin.
[a. OF. colpon, coulpon, copon, now coupon, cutting, cut, slice, piece, portion, f. colper, coper, couper to cut. The same word has been adopted from mod.Fr. in a special sense as coupon.]
A piece cut off, a cutting; a portion, strip, slice, bit, shred.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 679 This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex..But thynne it lay by colpons [v.r. culpouns] oon and oon. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 642 Al to peces thai hewed thair sheldes, The culpons flegh out in the feldes. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 89 Take eles..and choppe hem in faire colpons. 1548Hall Chron. (1809) 635 Velvet embroudered with sundery knottes and culpyns of golde. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. §5 margin, Quhen thai cleik fra ws twa coupounis of our crede, tyme is to speik. 1590Bruce Serm. Sacr. B viij a, Suppose thou get a cowpon of him [thy sauior] in the sacrament, that cowpon wald do thee na good. 1825Jamieson, Cowpon..in pl., shatters, shivers: pronounced coopins.
▪ II. † ˈculpon, v. Obs.
Also 6 coulpen, 7 Sc. coupon.
[f. culpon n.]
1. trans. To cut into pieces, cut up, slice.
14..Anc. Cookery 467 Take eles culponde and clene wasshen. 1513Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 265 Termes of a Keruer..culpon that troute. 1567Drant Horace's Ep. ii. i. F viij, He that did crowse and culpon once Hydra of hellish spyte. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 16 Superstition is lyke some serpents, that though they be couponed in many cuttes, yet they can keepe some lyfe in all.
2. To ornament or trim with strips or patches of a different-coloured material; sometimes, perhaps, to border with pieces of alternate colouring: see Godefroy, s.v. componné, couponné.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 820/1 The trappers of the coursers were mantell harnesse coulpened. Ibid. 858/1 A chemere, of cloath of silver, culponed with cloath of gold, of damaske, cantell wise. |
