apron-string tenure

obsolete A property or estate owned by a woman but controlled by her husband during her life and then by her family after her death. He has a vast property; it is but an apron-string tenure, though, and he shall be dispossessed of it when she passes.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aharon	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Shaynah	-	Yiddish
Mafalda	mah-FAHL-dah (Italian), mə-FAL-də (Portuguese)	Italian, Portuguese
Kleopatra	-	Ancient Greek
Zenobia	[zi'nəubjə]
Andrija	-	Croatian, Serbian