covert baron adjective 1noun 1 adjective1 •Covert, under coverture; married.The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her sband of the Lands — 1617 noun1 •(no longer used) The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.to put himself under covert-baron [translating à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony[…]. — 1603
