coverture

noun

ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r How to pronounce coverture (audio)
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as in veil
something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress

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Recent Examples of coverture While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were bypassing coverture specifically for the purpose of giving married women rights to own enslaved people. — Trevon Logan, The Conversation, 10 June 2024 Heavenly Mother, according to our own doctrine, can’t be some wilting Victorian flower shrinking under the protective coverture of a strong man. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022 The famous legal scholar William Blackstone had interpreted coverture rather strictly in the 1760s, and the American Revolution did nothing to change that. — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coverture
  1. veil
  2. cloak
  3. shroud
Noun
  • Even the nuns’ attire had progressed past ultra-conservative frocks and full-coverage veils.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The visuals are soft and cloudy, as if blanketed by a gossamer veil, and movement between scenes possess a feathery quality (editing is by Garret Elkins).
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of veil
Noun
  • High Fashion Rose Byrne gives us a cloak moment at the premiere of Blue Moon during Berlinale on Feb. 18 in Berlin. City Nights James Marsden celebrates the premiere of Zero Day on Feb. 18 in New York City.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The show’s iconic red cloak first made its debut back in April 2017 in season one and has since become a global sign of protest in the fight for women’s rights worldwide.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of cloak
Noun
  • Imagery from the Myrtle Beach region Monday morning showed a shroud of smoke enveloping parts of the low-lying terrain and creating a wall of low visibility.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The launch shroud encasing the uncrewed Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91, as NASA refers to it) resupply spacecraft has been decorated with a logo commemorating the centennial of Pavel Belyayev's birth.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
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