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femme couverte

femme couverte is the alternative form of feme covert.

Meaning of feme covert

Noun

feme covert (plural femes covert or femes coverts)

  1. (historical) A married woman.
    • […]—you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme covert; and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king—[…]1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees...

Questions about femme couverte

What is femme couverte the alternative form of?
Femme couverte is the alternative form of feme covert.

Words near femme couverte in the dictionary

  1. femmage
  2. femmages
  3. femmagist
  4. femmagists
  5. femme
  6. femme couverte
  7. femme fan
  8. femme fans
  9. femme fatale
  10. femme fatale fireflies
  11. femme fatale firefly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: femme couverte (page history and authors); feme covert (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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