adjective
- (in heraldry) shown with the head facing forward and cut off cleanly behind the ears, with no part of the neck visible
Usage: heraldic
Examples
- The family coat of arms featured a stag’s head caboched.
- In heraldry, a lion caboched appears as just the face looking directly forward.
- The boar’s head was depicted caboched on the medieval shield.
- Heraldic artists must understand the difference between a head shown caboched versus couped.
- The wolf’s head caboched dominated the center of the blazon.