Talk:couvert

Travelling-couvert
Chambers 1908 has travelling-couvert, defined as "a set of table utensils, arranged to pack up easily for travelling". Judging by Google Books, this is a rare phrase, but it's interesting that our current sense at couvert ("a cover charge") is not really related. Equinox ◑ 21:55, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

French sense of food
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/le-gite-et-le-couvert

https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/couvert Loc. Le vivre et le couvert. Un lieu pour dormir et de quoi manger. Réduire le vivre et le couvert au simple nécessaire (Taine, Voyage en Italie,t. 1, 1866, p. 43).Le couvert et le gîte (Huysmans, Oblat,t. 1, 1903, p. 277).

--Espoo (talk) 11:31, 27 February 2020 (UTC)