Coventry blue
English
Noun
Coventry
blue
(
uncountable
)
(
historical
)
Blue
cloth
made with a high-quality
dye
, made in Coventry, England, and used for
embroidery
.
References
“
Coventry
”, in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
, Springfield, Mass.:
G. & C. Merriam
,
1913
,
→OCLC
.