Obs. Also 6 coulpen, 7 Sc. coupon. [f. CULPON sb.]
1. trans. To cut into pieces, cut up, slice.
14[?]. Anc. Cookery, 467. Take eles culponde and clene wasshen.
1513. Bk. Keruynge, in Babees Bk. (1868), 265. Termes of a Keruer … culpon that troute.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Ep., II. i. F viij. He that did crowse and culpon once Hydra of hellish spyte.
1606. 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-colored material; sometimes, perhaps, to border with pieces of alternate coloring: see Godefroy, s.v. componné, couponné.
1577–87. Holinshed, 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.
