War of the Roses
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Tweet n. pl. Wars of the Roses A series of intermittent civil wars in the 1400s between the English royal houses of York and Lancaster and their supporters, ending in victory for the Lancastrians in 1485. Often used in the plural. [From the symbols of the two houses.] |
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