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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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fivescore — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : being 100 in number … Useful english dictionary
onescore — noun Twenty . See Also: twoscore, threescore, fourscore, fivescore, sixscore, sevenscore, eightscore, ninescore, tenscore … Wiktionary
score — a traditional unit of quantity equal to 20. The score, like the dozen, helps us describe a moderate number of objects. This is one of the many cases in which English has two words for similar concepts, one word from the Old French spoken in… … Dictionary of units of measurement
