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Lady Godiva   /lˈeɪdi gədˈaɪvə/   Listen
Lady Godiva

noun
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).  Synonym: Godiva.





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"Lady Godiva" Quotes from Famous Books



... to fathom the heart of a noble woman with any strength of her own, or any knowledge of the world. "Enid" is to me intolerable as well as the degraded legend it was founded on. Perhaps the brief thing of Lady Godiva is the nearest approach, and Elaine faultless as the picture of a maiden-heart brought up in "the innocence of ignorance." But he can write fairly of "fair women." Scott runs closer, but his are paintings from without. "Jeanie Deans" is bad ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden


Words linked to "Lady Godiva" :   Godiva, peeress, noblewoman, lady


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