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twenty-sevenths

  • plural
    of twenty-seventh.
    twenty-seventh
    adjective
    next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.

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The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.

From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

In the Fifth Gift the child sees three and its multiples; in fractions, halves, quarters, eighths, thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths.

From Children's Rights A book of nursery logic by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Ye see, every day, the interest is a penny and twenty-six twenty-sevenths of a farthin.

From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy

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