fourscore

[fawr-skawr, fohr-skohr] Origin

four·score

[fawr-skawr, fohr-skohr]
adjective
four times twenty; eighty.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English; see four, score
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Fourscore is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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fourscore (ˌfɔːˈskɔː)
 
determiner
an archaic word for eighty

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fourscore
eighty, mid-13c., formerly current as an ordinary numeral [OED], from four + score.
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