Gunpowder Plot
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (British) A failed plot, 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.
- Gunpowder Treason
- French: Conspiration des poudres
- German: Pulververschwörung
- Italian: Congiura delle polveri
- Portuguese: Conspiração da Pólvora
- Russian: Пороховой Заговор
- Spanish: Conspiración de la pólvora
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