Guinevere

Speech parts

1. Guinevere - Noun

2. Guinevere - Proper noun

Meaning

(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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Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise. Emma Thompson

C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried. Unexpectedly, he laughed. "Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere. Patricia Briggs

1230–40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, and to focus more on the Grail quest. Source: Internet

Arthur falling in love with Guinevere isn't smiled upon. Source: Internet

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot 's love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented. Source: Internet

Although I’ve been a fan of May Day since I first heard Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere tra-la-la-ing about “The Lusty Month of May” in Camelot, I don’t typically celebrate it. Source: Internet

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