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 Cov·er·ture n.
 1. Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.
    Protected by walls or other like coverture.   --Woodward.
 Beatrice, who even now
 Is couched in the woodbine coverture.   --Shak.
 2. Law The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
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 Feme n.  Old Law A woman.
 Feme covert Law, a married woman.  See Covert, a., 3.
 Feme sole Law, a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.
 Feme sole trader or Feme sole merchant Eng. Law, a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
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