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Gunpowder Plot
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English
Proper noun
- (British, historical) A failed conspiracy, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.
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failed plot to kill the king of England
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