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Kenilworth

Proper noun

Meaning

A town and civil parish with a town council in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2971).

A placename given to several towns, suburbs, etc., in Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United States.

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Examples

here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel [-] one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. [-] he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure. Lawrence Durrell

Adams 2002 p. 327 Kenilworth Castle was the centre of Leicester's ambitions to "plant" himself in the region, Adams 2002 p. 312 and he substantially transformed the site's appearance through comprehensive alterations. Source: Internet

Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location. Source: Internet

A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king. Source: Internet

Five months later this had not happened, and Henry III laid siege to Kenilworth Castle on 21 June. Source: Internet

By this point Kenilworth Castle consisted of the great keep, the inner bailey wall, a basic causeway across the smaller lake that preceded the creation of the Great Mere, and the local chase for hunting. Source: Internet

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