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Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
couverte + -ment.
couvertement
- covertly (in a hidden way)
1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 57:& y viengne si couvertement que nulluy ne le congnoisse- And he came so covertly that nobody recognized him
