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Guenevere

American  
[gwen-uh-veer] / ˈgwɛn əˌvɪər /

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white, fair.”


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In the lavish, sweeping “Camelot,” he plays a virtuous if egotistical knight who is in a love triangle with King Arthur and Guenevere.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2023

This incarnation skirts for so long how Arthur and Guenevere feel about each other that by the time they do declare their mutual affection, it’s no longer all that affecting.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

The hauteur of his wife, Guenevere, and the egotism of her lover, Lancelot, were exposed and then exploded in torrents of rapturous balladry that swept away their faults.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Now, for instance, the plan for a new order of chivalry, emanating originally from Arthur, is hatched collaboratively: Guenevere has as much to say about it now as her husband.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018

And as the tales of the Round Table are full of this lady, Queen Guenevere, it is well that anybody who reads this book should learn how she became Queen.

From The Book of Romance by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

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