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noun

Coverture n.

Covering; shelter; defense; hiding. "Protected by walls or other like coverture." "Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture."

(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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Etymology of 'Coverture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coverture" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lemon-grove In closest coverture upsprung, The living airs of middle night Died round the bulbul [8] as he sung; Not he: but something which possess'd The darkness of the world, delight, Life, anguish, death, immortal love, Ceasing not, mingled, unrepress'd. Apart from place, withholding ...

— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

... which we think to improve it; that we "paint the lily," in short. But the true "idealisation" and the first business of the poet is a denuding not an investing of the Goddess, whether her name be "Life," "Truth," "Beauty," or what you will: a revealing, not a coverture of embroidered words, however pretty and fantastic; as has been excellently said by Shelley: "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its external truth. There is this difference between a story and a poem, ...

— Poetry • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch