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coverture

[ kuhv-er-cher ]

noun

  1. a cover or covering; shelter; concealment.
  2. Law. the status of a married woman considered as under the protection and authority of her husband.


coverture

/ ˈkʌvətʃə /

noun

  1. law the condition or status of a married woman considered as being under the protection and influence of her husband
  2. rare.
    shelter, concealment, or disguise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coverture1

1175–1225; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French. See covert, -ure
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coverture1

C13: from Old French, from covert covered; see covert
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Example Sentences

Leaving the bilious and mathematical exactitude, the preposterous peace of that backwater, he thought suddenly: 'During coverture!

One cannot get over the fact that a wife during coverture had practically no legal status at all.

Sholto felt nervously for his sword and cleared it instinctively of the coverture in which he was wrapped.

A woman needed protection, or as the law of England has it, coverture.

The counterpane, or "coverture de parade," was of the curtain material.

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