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four-and-twenty en · NUM

Meanings

1. (archaic) Twenty-four. (24)
   • Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye. 1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)
   • 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. 2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian:
   • "He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]" 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:
   • Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand. 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Paralipomenon 27:2, page 863:

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Translations (2)

fi neljäkolmatta (archaic way of saying 24) · de vierundzwanzig (archaic way of saying 24)