guy fawkes day

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   day for the celebration of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot

   BroaderNovember 5

   United Kingdom

Questions about guy fawkes day

What does guy fawkes day mean?

guy fawkes day means "day for the celebration of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot".

Is guy fawkes day a common word?

guy fawkes day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.