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WARS OF THE ROSES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
War of the Roses; Wars of the Roses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "Wars of the Roses"):
Bosworth Field (the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
