Fivescore

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Definitions

Numeral
  1. 1
    hundred archaic

    "Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)"

Example

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"Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)"

Etymology

From five + score.

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