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Definition of 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 Fawkes
Literary usage of 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. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"fawkes afterwards held the curacy of Croydon, where he came under the ...
fawkes remained at Orpington until April 1774, when, by the favour of the l;.-v. ..."
3. 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)
"... John Wright, ana fawkes met in London, were initiated into the plot, and then
adjourned till they could take an oath of secrecy. ..."
4. 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 ..."
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