feme covert
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /fɛmˈkʌvət/
feme covert
- (legal, now chiefly historical) A married woman.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, IX:
- ‘you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme couverte, and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king [...].’
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, IX:
- feme sole
- feme sole merchant
- Russian: заму́жняя же́нщина
- Spanish: mujer casada
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