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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Cov·en·try /ˈkʌvəntri ||ˈkɑ-/
 英國一州城

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cov·en·try n. 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Coventry
      n 1: 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" [syn: banishment, ostracism]
      2: 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