Brewer's: Covent Garden

A corruption of Convent Garden; the garden and burial ground attached to the convent of Westminster, and turned into a fruit and flower market in the reign of Charles II. It now belongs to the Duke of Bedford.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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