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Cov·en·try 2     (kŭv'ən-trē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A state of ostracism or exile: "It's not that smoke-filled rooms are back; smokers huddle in Coventry these days" (Flora Lewis).


[After Coventry1, England (possibly from the sending of Royalist prisoners there during the English Civil War).]

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