GUNPOWDER PLOT

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Meaning:

A conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes

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Hypernyms ("Gunpowder Plot" is a kind of...):

cabal; conspiracy (a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot))

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