coverture / ˈkʌv ər tʃər /

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coverture 的定义

n. 名词 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.

更多coverture例句

  1. Leaving the bilious and mathematical exactitude, the preposterous peace of that backwater, he thought suddenly: 'During coverture!
  2. One cannot get over the fact that a wife during coverture had practically no legal status at all.
  3. Sholto felt nervously for his sword and cleared it instinctively of the coverture in which he was wrapped.
  4. A woman needed protection, or as the law of England has it, coverture.
  5. The counterpane, or "coverture de parade," was of the curtain material.