n. A town in the county of Warwick, England. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent), Syn. ostracism, Coventry, Example:the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry