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GUY FAWKES

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GUY FAWKES (noun)
  The noun GUY FAWKES has 1 sense:

1. English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)play

  Familiarity information: GUY FAWKES used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


GUY FAWKES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fawkes; Guy Fawkes

Instance hypernyms:

coconspirator; conspirator; machinator; plotter (a member of a conspiracy)


 Context examples 


He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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