different between coventure vs coverture

English

Etymology

co- +? venture

Noun

coventure (plural coventures)

1. An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French coverture, from covrir (“to cover”) or from Late Latin coopertura. Doublet of couverture.

Noun

coverture (countable and uncountable, plural covertures)

1. (law, historical) A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.
   • 2006, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography:

     Note that voting by widows did not raise some of the concerns that might have arisen from voting by wives subject to common-law coverture servitude to their husbands.

2. Alternative spelling of couverture
3. Shelter, hiding place.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

     URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish

     Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,

     And greedily devour the treacherous bait:

     So angle we for Beatrice; who even now

     Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

Related terms

• feme covert

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin coopert?ra, from Latin coopertus; equivalent to covert +? -ure, from covrir (“to cover”).

Noun

coverture f (oblique plural covertures, nominative singular coverture, nominative plural covertures)

1. covering; cover
   • Perceval ou le conte du Graal, Christian of Troyes

     sanz coverture fu la sele[.]

     The saddle was without a cover.

Descendants

• English: coverture
• French: couverture