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- noun a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856
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She had ardently longed, during that Crimean War, that the Russians might be beaten -- but not by the French, to the exclusion of the English, as had seemed to her to be too much the case; and hardly by the English under the dictatorship of Lord
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848
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