Covent Garden
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- A district in central London.
- The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Noun[edit]
Covent Garden (plural Covent Gardens)
Usage notes[edit]
The rhyme comes from a contemporary colloquial pronunciation of farthing as "farden" [ˈfɑː(ɹ)dən].
References[edit]
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “Covent Garden”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, pages 275–276.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1891) “Covent Garden”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume II, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 193.
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