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   covert

   adjective

   • 1. not openly acknowledged or displayed: "covert operations against the dictatorship"

   noun

   • 1. a thicket in which game can hide.
   • 2. a feather covering the base of a main flight or tail feather of a bird.
   • 3. a flock of coots: rare "it is a good omen when a covert of coots have taken to any particular locality"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the general senses ‘covered’ and ‘a cover’): from Old French, ‘covered’, past participle of covrir (see cover).

   Derivatives

   • 1. covertness noun

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