threescore
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈθɹiskɔɹ/
threescore (plural threescores)
- (archaic) Sixty. (60)
- And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. – 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:1 Chronicles 9:13
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:
- Words cannot picture her; but all men know
- That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought
- Three centuries and threescore years ago
- And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. –
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