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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the symbols of the two houses.]
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