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adjective
1) Covered, sheltered, not open or exposed.
“You are of either side the green to plant a covert alley, upon carpenter’s work, . . . ” - Bacon
2) Secret, private, not open or professed; disguised, in privacy.
“And honest merit stands on slippery ground,
Where covert guile and artifice abound.” - Cowper
3) Private, not public
“How covert matters may be best disclosed,
And open perils surest answered.” - Shakespeare
4) Retired, in privacy.
“Gladly wolde I knowen all,
And hold me covert alway.” - Gower
5) Mysterious, dark, no open or plain
“To spake in wordes so coverte” - Gower
6) Retired, private, sheltered.
“This covert nook reports not of his hand.” - Wordsworth
7) Under cover or protection, applied to the state of a woman sheltered by marriage under her husband.
noun
1) Any covering or cover.
2) Any cover or sheltering place; a shelter, a defense.
3) A thicket, a shady place.
4) A place of refuge or retreat; a hiding place.
5) Secrecy, privacy.
6) The feathers which cover the bases of the quills of the wings or tails of birds.
[Old French covert, cuvert; French couvert, past participle of couvrir = to cover.]
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