ninesome

nine +‎ -some

ninesome (plural ninesomes)

1. A group of nine persons or things.
   • 1954, The Folk Dancer, volumes 1-3, page 34:

     In the ninesome reel the dance is fully organized; i.e. there is no arbitrary change of partner, and quite sophisticated dance-figures occur.

   • 1958 October 13, LIFE‎:

     As they stood before a staid cast-iron gate across the street from where they work, they made as toothsome a ninesome as could ever be glimpsed anywhere.

   • 2008, Stephen Clarkson, Does North America Exist?: Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11, page 441:

     On that day, representatives from each country's business community presented their fifty-one detailed recommendations to an impressive trinational ninesome.

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