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Guy Fawkes Day   /gaɪ fɔks deɪ/   Listen
Guy Fawkes Day

noun
1.
Day for the celebration of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.





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"Guy fawkes day" Quotes from Famous Books



... that religious intolerance was not a part of Washington's character. In 1775, when the New England troops intended to celebrate Guy Fawkes day, as usual, the General Orders declared that "as the Commander in chief has been apprised of a design, formed for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the effigy of the Pope, he cannot help expressing his surprise, that there should be officers and soldiers in ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford
... of celebrating Guy Fawkes Day the Government announced their intention of compensating, up to a limit of five hundred pounds, any householder whose property has been damaged in air-raids. How soon he will cage his "monkey" will depend upon the Treasury, which is morbidly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917 • Various
... thought they ought to be sending the sailors—they were the chaps, they did a lot of good in the Crimea. Soames shifted the ground of consolation. Winifred had heard from Val that there had been a 'rag' and a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day at Oxford, and that he had escaped detection ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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