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LADY GODIVA

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LADY GODIVA (noun)
  The noun LADY GODIVA has 1 sense:

1. according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)play

  Familiarity information: LADY GODIVA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


LADY GODIVA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

According to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Godiva; Lady Godiva

Instance hypernyms:

Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)


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