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Done or kept in secret or in a clandestine manner
“This did not feel like a good place for a covert meeting. Random people roamed past, looking at the shelves of books.”
Placed or standing away from view
“His face reddens in embarrassment, as if he has just been caught in a covert little hideaway, committing some shocking, scandalous sin.”
Hidden from knowledge
Existing in a latent or dormant state
A dense group of bushes, shrubs or trees
“He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.”
A sanctuary or hiding place
“It offered them some shelter against the storms of sleet that drove at intervals across the moor, while it afforded a covert from which, though mounted, they could reconnoitre unseen, for two miles in every direction.”
A hiding place for animals or game
“He whirred from his seat like a surprised partridge beaten from a covert.”
A feather covering the base of a main flight or tail feather of a bird
“Males are mostly green with red sides to the body and red underwing coverts, with some blue in the wings and tail.”
A place to hide, or to seek shelter or privacy
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