coverture / ˈkʌv ər tʃər /
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coverture 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a cover or covering; shelter; concealment.
- Law. the status of a married woman considered as under the protection and authority of her husband.
更多coverture例句
- 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.