three score and fifth

English

Adjective

three score and fifth (not comparable)

  1. Sixty-fifth.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 94:
      Mrs. Hatchway had given up the ghost, in the three-score and fifth year of her age.
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