Coventry
['kɔvəntri]
Definition
(noun.) an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century.
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Definition
(n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England.
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Definition
n.—in phrase To send to Coventry = to shut a man out of any special society.
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Examples
- The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I hired them at Mr. Polonius's, in Coventry Street. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Similar works at Avon, near Coventry, England, have an equal capacity, and other factories are about to be established in Belgium and Germany. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You are the Hand they have sent to Coventry, I mean? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Coventry Island! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yellowjack, Commander Jaunders, has brought letters and papers from Coventry Island. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Silence, little foolish thing, replied her mother, and remember any one that mentions London is sent to Coventry for an hour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is in the Midland Electrical Company, at Coventry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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