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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
feme covert /fiːm ˈkʌvət/

▶noun Law, historical a married woman.

– origin C16: from Anglo-Norman Fr., lit. ‘a woman covered (i.e. protected by marriage)’.

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