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covert baron

covert baron adjective: covert, under coverture; married.

Adjective

covert baron (not comparable)

  1. Covert, under coverture; married.
    • The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her ſband of the Lands1617, The free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants of the Mannors of Stepney and Hackney

Noun

covert baron (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.
    • to put himself under covert-baron [translating à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 374

Origin of covert baron

From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).

Questions about covert baron

What does covert baron mean?
Covert baron means covert, under coverture; married.
What part of speech is covert baron?
Covert baron can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near covert baron in the dictionary

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