English

Proper noun

Covent Garden

1. A district in Central London
2. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Derived terms

• Covent Garden abbess
• Covent Garden ague
• Covent Garden nun

Noun

Covent Garden ‎(plural Covent Gardens)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, archaic) A farthing.

Usage notes

The rhyme comes from a contemporary colloquial pronunciation of farthing as "farden" [ˈfɑː(ɹ)dən].

References

• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, pages 275–276
• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 2, page 193