covert baron
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).
Adjective
[edit]covert baron (not comparable)
- (law) Covert, under coverture; married.
- 1617, The free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants of the Mannors of Stepney and Hackney:
- The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her ſband of the Lands
Noun
[edit]- (obsolete, chiefly with under) The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 374:
- to put himself under covert-baron [translating à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony […].