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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMPONY; COMPONE

Com *po "ny, Com *po "né, a. Etym: [F. componé.] (Her. )

Defn: Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

New American Oxford Dictionary

compony

com po ny |kəmˈpōnē kəmˈpoʊni | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] Heraldry divided into a single row of squares in alternating tinctures: a bordure compony. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French componé, from Old French compondre, from Latin componere ‘put together. ’

Oxford Dictionary

compony

compony |kɒmˈpɒni | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] Heraldry divided into a single row of squares in alternating tinctures: a bordure compony. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French componé, from Old French compondre, from Latin componere ‘put together ’.