/kooh pay"/ or, for 1, 5, /koohp/ , n.
1. a short, four-wheeled, closed carriage, usually with a single seat for two passengers and an outside seat for the driver.
2. the end compartment in a European diligence or railroad car.
3. Ballet. an intermediary step to transfer the weight from one foot to the other.
4. (in Continental heraldry) party per fess.
5. coupe 1 (def. 1).
Also, coupe (for defs. 1-3).
[ 1825-35; coupé (in defs. 1 and 2 short for carrosse coupé cut (i.e., shortened) coach), ptp. of couper to cut off, v. deriv. of coup COUP; cf. COPE 1 ]