couvert

See also: Couvert

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French couvert.

Noun

couvert (plural couverts)

1. cover charge
   • 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs:

     Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.

   • 1965, The Spectator:

     […] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.

   • 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia:

     The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.

Anagrams

• cutover, overcut

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French couvert, from Middle French couvert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈvɛr(t)/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cou‧vert

Noun

couvert n (plural couverts)

1. cutlery, silverware
2. envelope

Synonyms

• (cutlery): bestek
• (envelope): envelop

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French covert, from Latin coopertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.vɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)

1. covered
2. cloudy, overcast

Noun

couvert m (plural couverts)

1. Set of cutlery, place setting
2. covering, shelter

Derived terms

• le gite et le couvert
• le vivre et le couvert
• mettre le couvert
• remettre le couvert
• sous couvert de

 

Descendants

• → English: couvert
• → German: Kuvert
• → Swedish: kuvert

Participle

couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)

1. past participle of couvrir

Further reading

• “couvert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.