covert-baronadj.n.
A. adj.
= covert adj. 4.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > under protection of husband
covert1483
covert-baron1512
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 §4 Women Covertebaron except.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Couert-barron, a married woman.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 442 The woman..is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, foemina viro cooperta; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord.
B. n. † b. Said (humorously) of the position of a married man: cf. covert-feme n. Obsolete.
a. (Chiefly in phrase under covert-baron.) The condition of a feme covert or married woman.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > condition or position of
coverture1542
under covert1563
under covert-baron1581
matronage?1585
matronship1831
matronhood1836
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession H j b She beyng under couert barne, your Obligation is unpleadable.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 83 No woman under Covert-Baron was lyable to pay it.
1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 68 Say you are my Wife, and plead Covert-Bearn.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > position of
covert-baron1603
under covert-feme1681
coverture1836
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xvii. 374 To put himselfe vnder covert-barren, he tooke him a wife from out that place.
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. E2v Who dares trust A Ladyes husband, who is but a Squire, And under covert barne?
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 117 Impatient Grizel Has drub'd her Husband..And brought him under Covert-Baron.
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