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GODIVA
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
Godiva; Lady Godiva
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)
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