·noun A convent or monastery.
vulgarly called common garden. Anciently, the garden belonging to a dissolved monastery; now famous ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A bawd. ...
The venereal disease. He broke his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught the venereal disorde...
A prostitute. ...
Inhabited by foreigners in 1635 (L. and P. Chas. I. Dom. S. 1635, p. 594). Not mentioned in any of ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Messuage called "le Covent Rentes" in Estsmythfeld in parish of St. Botolph without Algate belonging...