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Coverture   Listen
noun
Coverture  n.  
1.
Covering; shelter; defense; hiding. "Protected by walls or other like coverture." "Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture."
2.
(Law) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.





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"Coverture" Quotes from Famous Books



... is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait: So angle we for Beatrice; who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture: Fear you not ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Knight edition]


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