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Guy Fawkes

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What does Guy Fawkes mean?

noun

  1. An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.

verb

  1. To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
  2. To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
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verb

  1. To execute by hanging.

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Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #1260
It was the fifteenth of January, before the trial of Guy Fawkes, and such of the other conspirators as were left alive, came on.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
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He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766