fiveteen

English

Numeral

fiveteen

  1. Obsolete form of fifteen. [17th–18th c.]
    • 1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology:
      Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length.
    • 1783, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 200:
      ‘I declared that 5 volumes could never be attacked! – but since I begun, I have read it 3 Times.’ ‘O terrible!’ cried I, – ‘to make them fiveteen! – ’
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