Pronounce: ih-MYOOR, verb
Notes: This word sounded familiar, but I couldn’t define it
Yesterday’s word
The word Coventry means “a state of ostracism”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
Yes, our word comes from the city in the UK. However, no one knows for sure how the sense of this word developed: one theory is that during the English Civil War the Royalist prisoners were send there.
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