Pronunciation
- Adjective:
- Noun:
covert
- (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
- to plant a covert alley
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- whether of open war or covert guile
- See also Thesaurus:covert
- feme covert
- German: verdeckt
- Russian: секре́тный
- Spanish: encubierto
covert (plural coverts)
- A covering.
- A disguise.
- A hiding place.
- Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
- (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
Covert
Proper noun
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