fourscore

[ fawr-skawr, fohr-skohr ]

/ ˈfɔrˈskɔr, ˈfoʊrˈskoʊr /

four times twenty; eighty.

Origin of fourscore

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at four, score

At his house in London he supported a family of fourscore persons, without counting those who attended him in public.

Love Romances of the Aristocracy |Thornton Hall
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version |Various
I am fourscore, and never had a headache in all my born days—all along of lying among the kye.

The Cloister and the Hearth |Charles Reade
And as long as there remained one of the fourscore knights, he overthrew every one of them at the first onset.

The Mabinogion |Lady Charlotte Guest

They are caught, and the defeat is so decisive that Israel is free again for fourscore years.

Judges and Ruth |Robert A. Watson

fourscore

/ (ˌfɔːˈskɔː) /

an archaic word for eighty