Usually means: Legal doctrine subsuming wives under husbands.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word coverture:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. coverture: Merriam-Webster
  2. coverture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coverture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coverture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coverture: Wordnik
  6. coverture: Wiktionary
  7. coverture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. coverture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. coverture: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. coverture: Dictionary.com
  11. Coverture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Coverture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. coverture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Coverture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. coverture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. coverture: FreeDictionary.org
  17. coverture: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. coverture: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. coverture: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Coverture: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. coverture: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coverture: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coverture: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (coverture)

noun:  Concealing cover, disguise, veil; also figurative
noun:  (law, historical) A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.
noun:  Shelter, hiding place.
noun:  Alternative spelling of couverture. [Chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets; a covering of such chocolate.]

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