Word: couchant
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...front-page head has a very fair apportionment of CRIMSON and lampoon type, four letter being of one characteristic style and four of the other. The C consists of a jester couchant with legs bent up over his head, the I of a huddled dragon with a pointed snout, and the two O's of two smiling faces reminiscent of Messrs. Moran and Mack. On the other hand, the R. M. P. and N are in most appropriate lower-case block letters...
...here at last is proper championship for the maligned denizens of the broad highway. And the defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...
...Coop, the print goes under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
Scene: Window seat, gules and sofa, azur. Two seniors couchant...
Here is evidence of the Boston Record's ready wit: "Cambridge Coat of Arms: Cars couchant; barge rampant...