Synonyms of coverture

coverture

noun

ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r 

as in veil

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth

under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress

Synonyms & Similar Words

• veil
• cloak
• shroud
• wraps
• blanket
• mantle
• pall
• mask
• robe
• curtain
• covering
• hood
• cover
• cope
• penumbra
• shield
• cover-up
• screen
• blind
• camouflage
• concealer
• disguise
• facade
• gloss
• veneer
• varnish
• face
• fig leaf
• Trojan horse
• Potemkin village

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of coverture

Post-1776, coverture laws made married women legally invisible, granting men absolute marital authority. — Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

For centuries, the doctrine of coverture rendered married women the property of their husbands with no legal rights of their own. — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025

Heavenly Mother, according to our own doctrine, can’t be some wilting Victorian flower shrinking under the protective coverture of a strong man. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022

The famous legal scholar William Blackstone had interpreted coverture rather strictly in the 1760s, and the American Revolution did nothing to change that. — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022

That started to change by about the 18th century, when coverture laws—which counted wives as legal property of their husbands—grew more entrenched in Britain, and evolved to effectively forbid women from owning land at all. — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2021

In the nascent American Republic, where some humans could vote and most others were in coverture to their voting husbands or were the property of those men, the notion of majority representation was corrupted a priori. — Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020