Pax Britannica
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna.
Proper noun[edit]
Pax Britannica
- (history) The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and the onset of World War I in 1914.
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