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Guinevere
[ gwin-uh-veer ]
noun
- Arthurian Legend. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- a female given name.
Guinevere
/ ˈɡwɪnɪˌvɪə; ˈɡwɛnɪˌvɪə; ˈɡwɪnɪvə /
noun
- (in Arthurian legend) the wife of King Arthur and paramour of Lancelot
Guinevere
- The wife of King Arthur (see also King Arthur ). In some versions of the legends of Arthur, she has a love affair with Sir Lancelot that leads to the end of the reign of Arthur and the fellowship of the Round Table .
Example Sentences
It helped that actual queer women were behind the show, including Ilene Chaiken, the show’s creator, and the writers Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche.
Perhaps the most well-known — the Silent Book Club — dates to 2012, when two friends in San Francisco, Laura Gluhanich and Guinevere de La Mare, met at a local bar and started reading.
In the 1970s, dressed in stylish, flowing gowns, caftans, robes and headscarves, she all but resembled Guinevere.
They ranged from the misty-eyed romanticism of “Guinevere,” to the spirituality of “Deja Vu,” to the operatic paranoia of “Almost Cut My Hair.”
Besides “Wooden Ships,” the album included two other songs by Mr. Crosby, the shimmering “Guinevere” and the elegiac “Long Time Gone,” which he wrote after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
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