1.
[syn: banishment, ostracism, 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;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Coventry \Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n.
A town in the county of Warwick, England.
[1913 Webster]
To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out
from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.
Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at
Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Coventry
n 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" [syn: banishment, ostracism,
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