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  • noun archaic Forty

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  • adjective being ten more than thirty

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Examples

  • And there, in that dark hole of man's inhumanity, from dungeon cell to dungeon cell, their mouths against the gratings, the twoscore lifers solemnly pledged themselves before God to tell the truth.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • There were at least twoscore men, a very massive patrol indeed.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • There were at least twoscore men, a very massive patrol indeed.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • There were at least twoscore men, a very massive patrol indeed.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • As a horror fan and someone who has lived a life of some twoscore and seven, with access to people of all races and religions, I'd love to see a horror movie drawn from Jewish mysticism, involving modern day Jews in some kind of supernatural situation that brings to bear questions of faith and reason.

    Good Golly Miss Hartley Arbogast 2009

  • The Army's Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y., and Schofield Barracks in Hawaii are just two of twoscore that need to be closed or mothballed.

    Amputation, Not Pedicure 2008

  • He was twoscore and ten years old when he buried it beneath his house, and yet never thought that he might be scarcely “fit to drink” when the wine became so.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • He was twoscore and ten years old when he buried it beneath his house, and yet never thought that he might be scarcely “fit to drink” when the wine became so.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • As she looked up in his face, the sun shone down upon hers, which, fresh and well-preserved as it was, yet showed some of the lines and wrinkles of twoscore years; and poor Harry, with that arm leaning on his, felt it intolerably weighty, and by no means relished his walk up the hill.

    The Virginians 2006

  • When the tragedy of Carpezan had run some thirty or twoscore nights, other persons of genius took possession of the theatre.

    The Virginians 2006

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