sevenscore

English

Etymology

seven +‎ score

Noun

sevenscore

(archaic) One hundred and forty.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 73:
  Thou shalt live a merry life within the woodlands, and sevenscore good companions shalt thou have, one of whom is mine own self.

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