Definition of "coupé"

coupé

/kuːˈpeɪ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural coupés
1. A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)
2. (Britain) A car with a fixed-roof body style that is shorter than a sedan or saloon of the same model.
3. (historical) The front part of a French stagecoach.
4. (historical) A four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside, and a separate seat for the driver.
5. (historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.
6. (uncountable) The strongest grade of Spanish saffron, akin to the Iranian sargol.
adjective
not comparable
1. (heraldry, obsolete) Couped.
  Quotations
  [...] who was knighted : His Arms were Or, three Barrs Azure on a Canton Argent, a Lyon's Head coupé Gules;
  1826, Sir Henry Chauncy, The Historical Antiquities of Hertforshire, page 314
  Grant of Arms and Crest from Hervy Clarenceux : Sablés, a chevron engrayled betwene three bezants, on a chief gold a rose gules between two flower de luces azure. Crest, a horsse head coupé golde pelletey betwene two winges barrey […]
  1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 82
  Fig. 34, Argent, a baton sinister, coupé, gules (the mark of illegitimate descent).
  1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 117