coverture

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概况：

n. 保护；覆盖；掩护；有夫之妇的法律身分

词义：

n.

保护，掩护；

英英释义

Coverture

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights were subsumed by those of her husband. Coverture was enshrined in the common law of England and the United States throughout most of the 19th century.

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用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

They took action with police's coverture.
他们在警方的掩护下采取了行动。

权威例句

Women, Consumption and Coverture in England, c. 1760-1860

Coverture and Capitalism

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Coverture and Capitalism

Make-up coverture

Chapter Two: Battered Women, Petty Traitors, and the Legacy of Coverture : Marriage and Violence The Early Modern Legacy

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Articles and essays - Coverture and capitalism

Married Women Bankrupts in the Age of Coverture

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869: Authors, Wives, Slaves: Coverture, Copyright, and Authorial Dispossession,...

同义词：safeguard,protection,lee,conservation

同根词：covering,coverage,cover

英语词源：

coverture (n.)

early 13c., earliest reference is to bedcovers, from Old French coverture (12c.) "blanket; roof; concealment," from Latin *coopertura, from past participle stem of cooperire "to cover" (see cover (v.)). Most modern senses had evolved by mid-15c.

造句：

1. Carol is a tall, dark, Latin type of woman.

卡萝尔身材高大，黑发棕肤，是个有着拉丁风情的女子。

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2. Latin and Greek will be squeezed out of school timetables.

拉丁语和希腊语将退出学校的课程表。

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3. Above its doors was a Latin inscription: Non omnia possumus omnes.

门的上方刻有拉丁文铭“人非万能”。

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4. Leaders of eight Latin American countries are meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, today.

拉美8个国家的领导人今天在委内瑞拉的加拉加斯会晤。

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5. He eventually took Charlie's place in a popular Latin band.

他最终在一个很受欢迎的拉丁乐队中取代了查利的位置。

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