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Definition of Guy Fawkes
1. Noun. English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guy Fawkes
Literary usage of Guy Fawkes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What Gunpowder Plot Wasby Samuel Rawson Gardiner by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1897)
"Reply to J. Gerard's "What was the gunpowder plot?" The traditional story tested by original evidence," London, 1896."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER AND Guy FAWKES. (VoL xviii., p. 450.) My attention has been
drawn to your editorial note above referred to, asking for an account of ..."
3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... while at work, they heard a rumbling noise over their heads. Fear seized them
that they had been discovered. Guy Fawkes, going out to in- Guy Fawkes. ..."
4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Guy Fawkes at Ramsgate.—The notes in the March number of FOLK-LORE on " Guy Fawkes
on the South Coast", bring back to my memory that some fifty years ago it ..."
5. Publications by Parker Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Such evidence might throw valuable light on the connection between Guy Fawkes'
and Hallowmas bonfires, long surmised by collectors of English folklore, ..."
6. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"He it was who procured the co-adjutor- ship of the celebrated Guido or Guy Fawkes,
who was not, as lias sometimes been represented, a low mercenary ruffian, ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... such as Mr. Guy Fawkes. Winter soon discovered what Catesby had probably
foreseen in England, that there was no hope at all of any immediate relief from ..."
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