york

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

Back-formation from yorker.

---- Madison Avenue, New York. — The Store Boy, Horatio, Jr. Alger
Kenedy & Sons, New York. — De La Salle Fifth Reader, Christian Brothers
I must go to New York. — John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein, Frank R. Stockton

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