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Fawkes

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Fawkes  (fôks), Guy 1570-1606.
English conspirator executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to kill James I and blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, to avenge the persecution of Roman Catholics in England.
Fawkes [fɔːks]
n
(Biographies / Fawkes, Guy (1570-1606) M, English, POLITICS: conspirator) Guy. 1570-1606, English conspirator, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (1605). Effigies of him (guys) are burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5)
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Noun1.FawkesFawkes - English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
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But it come to me all clear like, that night when I was sitting up wi' poor Bessy Fawkes, as is dead and left her children behind, God help 'em--it come to me as clear as daylight; but whether I've got hold on it now, or can anyways bring it to my tongue's end, that I don't know.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
His hand seemed to retreat up his sleeve as he advanced to do so, and he gave her such a superfluity of coat-cuff that it was like being received by the popular conception of Guy Fawkes.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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