coverture Meaning, Definition & Usage

Cov"er*ture noun
Etymology
OF. coverture,F.couverture.
Definitions
  1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding.
    Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward.
    Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.
  2. (Law) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.

Webster 1913