10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEND TO COVENTRY»
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. To send someone to Coventry is a British idiom meaning to ostracise someone, usually by not talking to them.
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
designed to arouse strong emotions, sensationalist n < Late Latin sensus sense.
sense (sens) n 1 the meaning conveyed or intended by a word, phrase, passage,
send to Coventry To send someone to Coventry is to refuse to speak to him or ...
Hence the phrase, to send to Coventry, may have been handed down from the
cavaliers to military men, and obtained its present application. — Ed.] Cast-steel,
to chair, (Eng.,) chairing, cassava, catafalco, celebrant. Chiltern hundreds, a tract
...
Betrayal, lobbinet, brass-band, buhl, cactus, canonicity, childe, as in Childe
Harold, clcrstory, To send to Coventry, among military men, to exclude from the
society of the mess, to shut out from all social intercourse, for conduct regarded
as ...
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Tricksters and Punks of Asia : World Class Shortcuts:
The idiom, 'to send to Coventry' means to ostracize somebody and arose from the
inhabitants of Coventry's distaste for soldiers, to the extent that any woman seen
speaking to one was immediately ostracized; consequently any soldier sent to ...
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Regimental
Coventry; as it is at present acted upon in the ...
... but do not license the commission qf low and paltry actions, they may deport
themselves with more decency, and much more to their own credit, towards the
next officer they conspire against and " send to coventry ;" but as far as regards
me, ...
James Connell (army surgeon.), 1837
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The Methodist Quarterly Review
Betra a1, bobbinet, brass-band, buhl, cactus, canonicity, childe, as in Childe {
Iarold, clerstory, To send to Coventry, among military men, to exclude from the
society of the mess, to shut out from all social intercourse, for conduct regarded
as ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
from C16; in C.19-20, rare but S.E. send to Coventry. To ignore socially: mid-C.18
-20; orig. military. Coll., > S.E. ca. 1830. Origin uncertain: perhaps ex Coventry
Gaol, where many Royalists were imprisoned during the Civil War (see e.g. ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names for Pagans, Wiccans, ...
In British English, “to send to Coventry”means to exclude or ostracize. Coy ♂ ♀
English surname. OF: coi “quiet”—later “shy.” The word “coy” has passed into
modern English with the sense of affected shyness, used largely of girls and
young ...
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Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations
... mutual support; English proverb, late 16th century phrases ▷ send to Coventry
refuse to speak to; ostracize; perhaps after circumstances recorded in Clarendon
The History of the Rebellion (1703) 'At Bromicham, a town so generally wicked, ...
