fourscore
Americanadjective
determiner
Etymology
Origin of fourscore
Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at four, score
Example Sentences
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The fourscore felines are shy but ready to be taken in by cat lovers, according to the Riverside County Department of Animal Services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
In the words of the Psalms, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2017
At 78, Mr. Petherbridge, hasn’t quite reached fourscore, but he’s had a long and eventful career.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2015
Toward the end of our play, King Lear explicitly states his age: “I am a very foolish, fond old man, fourscore and upwards, not an hour more or less.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
So soon as he heard of it, he set off by post to meet the charge, traveling one hundred miles in a single day, though then bowed down with the weight of fourscore years.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
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