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cover-shames

cover-shames is the plural of cover-shame.

Meaning of cover-shame

Noun

cover-shame (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Something used to conceal infamy.
    • Give place then exprobrating fruit, and come / Thou Cover-shame, old Fig-tree, in the Room: / Though men of all the fruit, that hangs o'th' tree, / Should love none less for your obscurity1659, Edmund Gayton, chapter 31, in The Art of Longevity
  2. A plant, savin (Juniperus sabina), which was historically used as both a contraceptive and to induce abortions.

Questions about cover-shames

What is cover-shames the plural of?
Cover-shames is the plural of cover-shame.

Words near cover-shames in the dictionary

  1. cover-few
  2. cover-fews
  3. cover-girl
  4. cover-girls
  5. cover-shame
  6. cover-shames
  7. cover-slut
  8. cover-sluts
  9. cover-the-buckle
  10. cover-the-buckles
  11. cover-up

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