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Coventry

Dictionary definition · Coventry

noun

  1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)"the association should get rid of its elderly members — not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
  2. 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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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).