covent
See also: Covent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French covent, French couvent.
Noun
covent (plural covents)
- (obsolete) Convent.
- c. 1500, Anonymous, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta:
- BARABAS. Marry, the Turk [134] shall be one of my godfathers, But not a word to any of your covent.
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Derived terms
- Covent Garden
Old French
Etymology
From Latin conventus.
Noun
covent m (oblique plural covenz or coventz, nominative singular covenz or coventz, nominative plural covent)
- convent (residence of nuns)
Descendants
- English: convent (borrowed)
- French: couvent