Covent Garden

[ kuhv-uhnt, kov- ]

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noun

a district in central London, England, formerly a vegetable and flower market.
a theater in this district, first built 1731–32, important in English theatrical history: home of the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet.

Covent Garden

/ ˈkɒv-; ˈkʌvənt /

a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
the Royal Opera House (built 1858) in Covent Garden

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Earlier in the day we were at the Covent Garden Hotel for Manolo Blahnik's debut LFW show - a short film starring Rupert Everett.

Damon Baker, a 19-year-old British photographer, went into a dark karaoke bar in Covent Garden last summer.

And the Thursday morning after the opening the inflatable Koons Rabbit was floated above Covent Garden like a blessing.

I saw her seven years ago at Covent Garden, and she was the handsomest thing I ever looked at.

We must now be supposed to have reached the entrance of the hostelry, for indeed it was a Covent Garden tavern and nothing more.

The dank vapours of Covent Garden are sweet in the nostrils of many a cockney reveller.

Under the title of ‘Covent Garden Weeded,’ it exposes the riotous doings that prevailed in that joyous locality.

Covent Garden took its name from a convent garden belonging to the abbey.

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