coverture
/kuhv-er-cher/US // ˈkʌv ər tʃər //UK // (ˈkʌvətʃə) //
掩护,遮盖物,覆盖物,覆盖
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a cover or covering; shelter; concealment.
- : Law. the status of a married woman considered as under the protection and authority of her husband.
Examples
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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