See Also: COVERTURE(law)
coverture(encyclopedia)
coverture(dictionary)
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Gold Cup, the(dictionary)
Gold(finance)
GOLD(law)
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Gold Fix(money)

gold-rimmed (oh) and coverture (iou)


gold-rimmed (oh)



adj
having a gold edge or border
::gold-rimmed glasses

coverture (iou)



coverture noun. ME.
[Old French (mod. couverture), from covrir COVER verb2 or late Latin coopertura (from ppl stem of Latin cooperire COVER verb2): see -URE.]
A bed-cover; a coverlet. ME-L17.
Clothing; a garment; a horse's trappings. ME-E17.
gen. (A) covering. Formerly also, a cover (of a dish, book, letter, etc.). LME.
An overhead covering; a canopy. Now rare. LME.
Protective covering; (a) shelter, (a) refuge. LME.
Spenser Agaynst his cruell scortching heate, Where hast thou couerture?
Concealing covering; (a) disguise. LME.
I. Barrow Shrowded under the coverture of Other Persons and Names.
b. fig. Concealment; dissimulation, deceit. Now rare. LME.
A pretext, a pretence. LME-M16.
The legal status of a married woman (formerly as under the authority and protection of her husband); a woman's married state. Esp. in during the coverture, under coverture. M16.