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Gwyn

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Gwyn or Gwynne  (gwn), Eleanor Known as "Nell." 1650?-1687.
English actress. She was the lover of Charles II after c. 1668.
Gwyn [gwɪn]
n
(Biographies / Gwyn, Nell (1650-1687) M, English, THEATRE: actress) Nell, original name Eleanor Gwynne. 1650-87, English actress; mistress of Charles II
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Noun1.Gwyn - Celtic underworld god
Cambria, Cymru, Wales - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria


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then the king's counselors, who are in number seven - Mademoiselle Stewart, Mademoiselle Wells, Mademoiselle Gwyn, Miss Orchay, Mademoiselle Zunga, Miss Davies, and the proud Countess of Castlemaine - will represent to the king that war costs a great deal of money; that it is better to give balls and suppers at Hampton Court than to equip ships of the line at Portsmouth and Greenwich.
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