white rose

noun

, English History.

1. the emblem of the royal house of York.

white rose

noun

1. English history a widely used emblem or badge of the House of York See also Wars of the Roses red rose

Word History and Origins

Origin of white rose¹

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

And women, including Ann White, rose to the task.

From National Geographic Kids

Asif Akram, who manages the White Rose Medical Practice in Barnsley, told the BBC that as of this morning he was still unable to log in to EMIS.

From BBC

“We just put our heads together and decided a bookstore would help make sure students could get to books that were being pulled from shelves,” says Decker, whose White Rose Books & More opened last fall in Kissimmee.

From Seattle Times

White Rose Books is part of the ever-expanding and diversifying world of independent bookstores.

From Seattle Times

The study, led by researchers at the White Rose universities of York and Leeds, as well as Oxford and Montreal, and ETH, Switzerland, ran a widely-used climate model with different atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to assess the impact climate change could have on the distribution of ecosystems across the planet up to the year 2500.

From Science Daily