covent
See also: Covent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French covent, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French couvent.
Noun
covent (plural covents)
- (obsolete) Convent.
- c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483[1]:
- And in this yere deyde Huberd erchebisshop of Caunterbury; and thanne the priour and the covent of Caunterbury chosen in there chapytre hous the noble clerk Stephen of Langeton, ayens the kynges will, whome the pope sacred at Viterke.
Derived terms
Old French
Etymology
Noun
covent oblique singular, m (oblique plural covenz or coventz, nominative singular covenz or coventz, nominative plural covent)
- convent (residence of nuns)
Descendants
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