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fourscore (n.)
"eighty, four times twenty," mid-13c., "formerly current as an ordinary numeral" [OED], from
four
+
score
(n.). Archaic by the time Lincoln used it at Gettysburg in 1863. Related:
Fourscorth
"eightieth."
