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coverture ['kʌvətʃə]

n. 保护，掩护;

例句:

  • Wings - Celebrity, sometimes protection or coverture.
    翅膀 - 名望, 有时表示保护或掩护.
  • This was the principle of "coverture," or civil death.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • Under the old doctrine of coverture, a man owned not only his wife's property but her body as well.
    来自NEWYORKER