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Covent Garden pardon, especially as a shortened version of 'I beg your pardon'. Rhyming slang, replacing the original (1857) sense as 'a farthing' (a coin that was worth 1/4 of a penny); formed on the name of a fashionable area of central London when it still had a reputation as a market for fruit and vegetables UK, 1992
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