Usually means: Married woman under husband's protection.
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  1. feme covert: Merriam-Webster
  2. feme covert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. feme covert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. feme covert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. feme covert: Wordnik
  6. feme covert: Wiktionary
  7. feme covert: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. feme covert: Dictionary.com
  9. feme covert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Feme covert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. feme-covert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. Feme-covert: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. feme covert: FreeDictionary.org
  14. feme covert: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (feme covert)

▸ noun:  (law, now chiefly historical) A married woman.

Similar:
femme couverte, feme sole, covert baron, mulier, field wife, wedlock, wife, Goodwife, kept woman, henwife, more...

Opposite:
homme sole, unmarried woman, single woman
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Similar:
femme couverte, feme sole, covert baron, mulier, field wife, wedlock, wife, Goodwife, kept woman, henwife, more...

Opposite:
homme sole, unmarried woman, single woman



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