four-and-twenty

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four-and-twenty

  1. (archaic) Twenty-four. (24)
    • 1609, The Holie Bible,  (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, , →OCLC, 1 Paralipomenon 27:2, page 863:
      Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand.
    • 1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)
      Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye.
    • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: , volume I, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:
      "He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]"
    • 2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian‎:
      Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

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