Thesaurus results for COVERTURE

coverture

noun

ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r

Definition of coverture

as in veil

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress

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Recent Examples of coverture Post-1776, coverture laws made married women legally invisible, granting men absolute marital authority. — Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 For centuries, the doctrine of coverture rendered married women the property of their husbands with no legal rights of their own. — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 Heavenly Mother, according to our own doctrine, can’t be some wilting Victorian flower shrinking under the protective coverture of a strong man. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022 The famous legal scholar William Blackstone had interpreted coverture rather strictly in the 1760s, and the American Revolution did nothing to change that. — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 That started to change by about the 18th century, when coverture laws—which counted wives as legal property of their husbands—grew more entrenched in Britain, and evolved to effectively forbid women from owning land at all. — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2021 In the nascent American Republic, where some humans could vote and most others were in coverture to their voting husbands or were the property of those men, the notion of majority representation was corrupted a priori. — Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020

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Noun

The post featured several sweet moments, including one of her placing a veil on her daughter’s head.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
The Substance actress shared a glimpse of herself helping her youngest daughter with her wedding veil, along with her daughters Rumer and Scout and granddaughter Louetta.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of veil

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The sculpture depicts a female figure, her cloak billowing out in the shape of a seed around her and etched with more than 300 global symbols of peace, holding olive branches and surrounded by six children, each representing a continent.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
Accompanying the drones will be a suite of musical scores and dialogue from the films, as well as a live performance by an electric violinist (dressed in a wizard’s cloak) to help amplify the soundtrack.

— Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of cloak

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While music from the Campari Lounge boomed into the evening, approximately 100 demonstrators unwound a shroud bearing the names of 60,000 people who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war two and a half years ago.

— John Bleasdale, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026
The shroud of silence and fear that enveloped Syria throughout the Assad decades was gone.

— Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

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