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wars of the roses
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Noun wars of the roses has 1 sense
- wars of the roses(n = noun.act) war of the roses - 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; Array is a kind of war, warfare
has parts: bosworth field
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