Yorkist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A supporter of the House of York. historical

    "But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates."

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"But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates."

Etymology

From York + -ist.

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