coventry
general
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A town in the county of Warwick, England. 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.
noun
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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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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
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