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- Chevron - n. - One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
- Chevron - n. - A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
- Chevron - n. - A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
- Chevroned - p. a. - Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
- Chevronel - n. - A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
- Chevronwise - adv. - In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.
- Couple-close - n. - A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.
- Couche - v. t. - Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
- Stripe - n. - The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.