Coventure vs Coverture - What's the difference?
coventure | coverture |
An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries. (legal) 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.
Shelter, hiding place.
* 1599 ,
*: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 .