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Gunpowder Plot

(Historical Terms) the unsuccessful conspiracy to blow up James I and Parliament at Westminster on Nov. 5, 1605 See also Guy Fawkes Day

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Gunpowder Plot - a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes

cabal, conspiracy - a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

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If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.

Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context

In this coffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty, that the smallest instalments could only be tempted out by artifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

Besides, when we meet such a title as the Gunpowder Plot, or any other connected with general history, each reader, before he has seen the book, has formed to himself some particular idea of the sort of manner in which the story is to be conducted, and the nature of the amusement which he is to derive from it.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

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