Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wife of King Arthur and lover of Lancelot according to Arthurian legend.
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- proper noun A female
given name ofWelsh origin. - proper noun In
Arthurian legend , thewife ofKing Arthur .
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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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dante had proper insight when he made the Inferno foggy, and Tennyson, too, in "Guinevere", when he wished to presage unutterable sadness, told how
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My cat Guinevere is now officially a star, and will only grow more conceited as she achieves global exposure.
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By the way, "Alfred and Guinevere" is one of the great books they've done and you should definitely check it out.
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[16] Mr. Churton Collins thinks that the lines in "Guinevere" --
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Meg Jensen writes of this rediscovered gem from the 1930s, a tale of a 40-year-old governess who stumbles into a world of cocktails and evening gowns when an employment agency sends her to the wrong address: “Over the course of a day, in a series of deft interventions, brilliant repartee, and enough gin to sink a lesser woman, Guinevere is revealed not only to her newfound friends, but more importantly to herself, as a lifesaver, in more ways than one.”
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An early 12th century church archivolt has an Arthurian scene, perhaps carved by a Breton, that labels Guinevere as 'Winlogee.'
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Although I actually like the idea of Guinevere giving him a son...so maybe not!
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The word "lover" now almost always appears with a nonhuman object -- animal lover, bargain lover, seafood lover -- but surely Launcelot never called Guinevere his significant other.
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MR: Can you tell us a little bit about where your stage name "Guinevere" came from?
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In some bizarre twist, this means that Xander (i.e. the "normal" one) is going to be Guinevere aka Gwen the maid.
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