fewscore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From few + score.

Determiner[edit]

fewscore

  1. (rare) A few score: on the order of a small multiple of twenty.
    • 1967, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, The Heavenly Foreigner, page 19:
      Cathedral close, lawn green as a race-horse run,
      Along the foot of the buttresses,
      A fewscore unregulated graves.