Associations to the word «Coventry»

Wiktionary

COVENTRY, noun. Banishment.
COVENTRY, proper noun. An industrial city in central England.
COVENTRY BLUE, noun. Blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

Dictionary definition

COVENTRY, noun. 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".
COVENTRY, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats