coudé

/ kuːˈdeɪ /

adjective

1. (of a reflecting telescope) having plane mirrors positioned to reflect light from the primary mirror along the axis onto a detector

Word History and Origins

Origin of coudé¹

French, literally: bent in the shape of an elbow, from coude an elbow

Example Sentences

After Macrobeus understand coude (from l. 283), which governs the infin.

From Project Gutenberg

The coude and genouillire are both smaller than in the Gothic suit, and fit more closely to the limbs.

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The left arm being defended by the target has no espalier or pauldron, but only coude, vambraces, and gauntlets.

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And som honest and grete clerkes haue ben wyth me, and desired me to wryte the moste curyous termes that I coude fynde.

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And we answered my lorde/ that the lad coude not goo from his father/ for if he shulde leaue his father/ he were but a deed man.

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