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plantagenet
/plænˈtædʒ.ə.nɪt/
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What does plantagenet mean?
proper noun
- A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.
- A local government area in the Great Southern region, Western Australia; in full, the Shire of Plantagenet.
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noun
- (historical) A member of the dynasty which held the English throne from 1154 to 1485.
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/plænˈtædʒ.ə.nɪt/
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/plænˈtædʒ.(ə.)nət/
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I love no colours, and without all colour Of base insinuating flattery I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
“With Richard Plantagenet,” replied De Bracy, “with Richard Cœur-de-Lion—with Richard of England.”
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Or consider in what respects the grand faces of the Plantagenet monarchs differ from the refined countenances of the leading English statesmen of to-day.
Henry Plantagenet lay quiet in the abbey church of Fontevraud, in the fifty-seventh year of his age—never to be completed—after governing England well, for nearly thirty-five years.
Blanche: For years I've writhed beneath her sneers, Although a born Plantagenet!