Plantagenet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Plantagenet
C12: from Old French, literally: sprig of broom, with reference to the crest of the Angevin kings, from Latin planta sprig + genista broom
Example Sentences
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The film, which told the story of the search for the Plantagenet monarch under a Leicester council car park in 2012, will be changed and defamatory comments not repeated.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
The idea of an “all-female, gender-fluid, disability forward” staging of “Richard III” — as New York Classical Theater describes its new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the monstrously degenerate Plantagenet king — tantalizes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
The cathedral is now home to the tomb of Richard III, England’s last Plantagenet king and the last English monarch to have died in battle.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
One time, as recounted in Philadelphia magazine, traders bet on whether Yass could name the last Plantagenet king of England.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2022
Plantagenet has found these pre-WPA years inimical to his artistic inclinations.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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