
n. [ OF. coverture, F.couverture. ]
Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]
Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ OF. overture, F. ouverture, fr. OF. ovrir, F. ouvrir. See Overt. ]
It was he
That made the overture of thy treasons to us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make an overture to;