twelvehundred

English

Numeral

twelvehundred

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) Alternative form of twelve hundred.
    • 1921, Adolphus William Ward, Collected papers: historical, literary, travel and miscellaneous‎[1], page 310:
      The wealth of characters to be found in the plays of the period - I have not verified the statement that Shakespeare's contain in all twelvehundred - does not exhaust their infinite variety...
    • 1951, Netherlands Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Consular Manual, p. 11:
      ...commits or tolerates acts knowing that they may expose ship or cargo to being seized, stopped or detained, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding twelvehundred guilders.
    • 2010, Dieter Mehl, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals), p. 25.
      Thus, it is surely significant that there is such a large number of poems of between about five and twelvehundred lines each.
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