fivescore

English

Etymology

From five +‎ score.

Numeral

fivescore

  1. (archaic) hundred
    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)

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