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coven

/kuhv-uhn, koh-vuhn/US // ˈkʌv ən, ˈkoʊ vən //UK // (ˈkʌvən) //

契约,巫术,巫婆,巫师团

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an assembly of witches, especially a group of thirteen.

Examples

  • She’s actually thousands of years old, and during the Salem Witch Trials she turned a bunch of her coven members over to the Puritans to cull the weak witches, arguing the strongest would survive attempts to burn them at the stake.

  • Americans recognize less and less of themselves on TV, and Congress is typically portrayed as a coven of extremism.

  • Kathy Bates was really good on American Horror Story: Coven.

  • Guggenheim pulled the confirmed bachelor into her coven of beatnik friends.

  • On American Horror Story: Coven, Jessica Lange plays a drunk witch.

  • Entertainment Weekly Stevie Nicks to guest star on American Horror Story: Coven.

  • But Coven is also groundbreaking in ways, at least at this point in its run, that it may not be receiving credit for.

  • He nodded, and followed the priest and the worshipers into the main part of the Coven.

  • At the far end of the block he could see the tiny red light of the Coven.

  • His nearest shelter now was the Wee Coven, about half a mile away.

  • But he kept on crawling, and at last he reached the door of the Coven.

  • Helen Fraser, of the same “coven,” was a most dangerous witch.