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Guy Fawkes
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synonyms: Guido Fawkes ???
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Definition:[1570 - 1606]a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: by Henry Perronet Briggs, (1823) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guy_fawkes_henry_perronet_briggs.jpgphoto: By Kigsz, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
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Blackadder: Oh God! We're in serious serious trouble here. If the General ever finds out that Gorgeous Georgina is, in fact, a strapping six-footer from the rough end of the trench, which will precipitate the fastest execution since someone said, "this Guy Fawkes bloke, do we let him off, or wot?"
BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Major Star
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Some dude in a cheap Guy Fawkes mask was clicking through his projected Powerpoint presentation of new memes he'd created.
Wayne Gladestone. Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, p.182 (2014)
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Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
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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 Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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