LekhoriLekhoriCovert, under coverture; married.
The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her ſband of the Lands
The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.
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[…].
From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).
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