Coventry

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noun

A state of ostracism.

πŸ’¬ Usage Examples

β€œWhen I was about twelve, all the girls at school stopped talking to me ... I arrived at school and gradually realized that I had been sent to Coventry. It made me miserable, so upset.” Rowan Coleman; The Day We Met; Ballantine; 2015.
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