Couvert vs Covert - What's the difference?
couvert | covert |
cover charge
* 1941 , Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
* 1965 , The Spectator
* 2010 , Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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As nouns the difference between couvert and covert
is that couvert is while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.As an adjective covert is
hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.couvert
English
Noun
(en noun)- Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert ; without dinner, admission charge.
- the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
- The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.
covert
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
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