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Fawkes is a surname of Norman-French origin, first appearing in the British Isles after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The name ultimately derives from the pre-6th century Germanic given name of Falco (later Faulques) meaning "falcon". The first recorded spelling of the surname in England is that of one Geoffrey Faukes in 1221.

It is also, less frequently, a given name.

Usage examples of "fawkes".

There was also a garden plot behind the main house, containing vegetables for the personal consumption of the Fawkes family.

Patrick McKenzie Fawkes, Royal Navy retired, paced the floor of his veranda with the same intensity he had once exhibited on the deck of a ship when approaching home port.

Myrna and herded by his son and daughter, Fawkes reluctantly boarded the four-wheel-drive.

But there can be no denying Fawkes has built up the finest estate in northern Natal in an extremely short length of time.

Captain Fawkes, this is Colonel Joris Zeegler, director of Internal South African Defence.

Vaal did not answer but simply passed Fawkes a leather-bound book about the size of a thin bookkeeping ledger.

You can be certain, Captain Fawkes, that if and when our government topples, it will not be replaced by one with democratic majority rule in mind.

CK-88s opened up and Fawkes Junior seemed to snap to attention as at least ten slugs ripped through his body.

The feed in the barn and the equipment housed in the shed had been set on fire, and flames were already flickering orange fingers from the upstairs window of the Fawkes house.

The constable spared Fawkes the details, and Fawkes did not demand them.

Francis and several Defence Force soldiers were huddled around three forms lying under blankets when Fawkes braked to a stop in the yard.

It looked to Fawkes as if three or maybe four bodies had been dragged from the house before it was torched.

The face had no distinct features, because it was the face of a man Fawkes had never seen: the face of Hiram Lusana.

South African government may have ordered the murder of the Fawkes family and their field workers.

The raid on the Fawkes farm had an aura of intrigue about it that did not fit the usual terrorist scheme.