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fifty-fifth
[ fif-tee-fifthor, often, -fith ]
adjective
- next after the fifty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 55.
- being one of 55 equal parts.
noun
- a fifty-fifth part, especially of one (1/55).
- the fifty-fifth member of a series.
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He has lately passed his fifty-fifth year, and is now in the enjoyment of as good health as he has ever known.
He thought of another thing; he had been invited to call at a house on East Fifty-fifth Street.
The utter improbability of his ever seeing the inside of one of the East Fifty-fifth Street mansions!
Yet the fair lily did its work well during that long walk from East Fifty-fifth Street to the shadow of the alley.
Life at East Fifty-fifth Street was so far removed from life in the alley that she knew nothing about the missing father.
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