covert baron

From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).

covert baron (not comparable)

1. Covert.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

covert baron (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) (Chiefly with under) The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , II.17:

     to put himself under covert-baron [transl. à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony […].