What does fivescore mean?
Fivescore means (archaic) hundred.
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(archaic) hundred.
Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)
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Fivescore means (archaic) hundred.
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Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, I have a dream)
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