- an industrial city in the English Midlands. Many of its buildings were destroyed by bombs in the Second World War, including its cathedral. A new cathedral designed by Basil Spence was built next to the ruins of the old one after the war.
Idioms
send somebody to Coventry
- (British English) to refuse to speak to somebody, as a way of punishing them for something that they have done
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Coventry