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caboché

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ca⋅boched

[kuh-bosht]
–adjective
caboshed.
Also, ca⋅bo⋅ché [kab-uh-shey] .

ca⋅boshed

[kuh-bosht]
–adjective Heraldry.
(of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
Also, ca⋅bossed [kuh-bost] , caboched, caboché.


Origin:
1565–75; var. of caboched, ptp. of ME caboche to behead (a deer) < AF cabocher, deriv. of caboche head; see cabbage 1
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