coventry

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"I eats them," said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upward, were visible.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

One of Marion's modes of getting rid of worthless officers, was to put them into coventry.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

I don't say that we could do anything; but as we should represent most of the large estates round here, I don't think old Jackson and his son would like being sent to coventry.

From With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

But I've heard mutterings to the effect that your class will send you to coventry for excessive zeal in greasing, to the detriment of your classmates.

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

She had received signs of what might lead to partial coventry on the part of a number of upper class students.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline