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English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch Tachtigjarige Oorlog.
Proper noun
Eighty Years' War
- (historical) The conflict in the Low Countries against Spanish rule, from 1568 to 1648, that gradually turned into a Dutch war of independence.
Translations
Dutch war of independence
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