fivescore

English

Etymology

five +‎ score

Noun

fivescore (plural fivescores)

  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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