five-and-twenty en · NUM
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(archaic) Twenty-five.
Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.
1879, Henry James, chapter III, in Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus: