"Little Ice Age" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe–variously dated from 1250 to 1900 or 1550 to 1850–should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.",
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        "A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850."
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