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- noun (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table
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Examples
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"Guenevere" hastened to purchase it, and, of course, found themselves in contact with something very unlike their old favourite.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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Indeed, I think of "Guenevere" as FitzGerald did of Tennyson's poems before 1842.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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The Arthurian legend is an interesting one that has seen and continues to see countless retellings, due to the fact that there is very little evidence proving the existence of a warrior king known as Arthur; mentions of Merlin and Guenevere are even rarer, while Lancelot is a complete fabrication by Chrétien de Troyes in the twelfth century.
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For those keeping track of how notable are the heavyweights for the January 20 gala: Oscar-winning Andrews played Guenevere in the original Broadway production of "Camelot," which became a reference point for the glamour and achievements of the Kennedy administration.
Gala celebration planned for JFK 50th anniversary Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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I picture Merritt sitting by as the various councils swot it out for his favor like Guenevere in CAMELOT:
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The Arthurian legend is an interesting one that has seen and continues to see countless retellings, due to the fact that there is very little evidence proving the existence of a warrior king known as Arthur; mentions of Merlin and Guenevere are even rarer, while Lancelot is a complete fabrication by Chrétien de Troyes in the twelfth century.
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Maybe the expensive, hand-labeled, personally-shipped delicacies of the garden that are dropped upon his massive center table, round and with arrow scars that carry stories that go all the way back to Guenevere and Lancelot even if the table truly was distressed by a pair of Welsh in the back of a furniture shop, maybe the good stuff sits there alone and distresses nobody.
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Other characters, like Morgana and Guenevere, also undergo changes.
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If she is also reminded of Arthur and Guenevere, Jove and Juno, Adam and Eve, Romeo and Juliet, the marriage is given a luster and a gravity in her eyes it would not otherwise possess: she cannot say it is like a fairy tale if she has never read a fairy tale.
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Maybe the expensive, hand-labeled, personally-shipped delicacies of the garden that are dropped upon his massive center table, round and with arrow scars that carry stories that go all the way back to Guenevere and Lancelot even if the table truly was distressed by a pair of Welsh in the back of a furniture shop, maybe the good stuff sits there alone and distresses nobody.
Cheese and Lactose Steve Carper 2007
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