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war of the roses is a noun 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". It carries one recorded sense.
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
England
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for war of the roses come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.