Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Threescore
threescore, adj. [OE scoru, notch, tally, the number of twenty.]
Phrase. “at threescore and ten”: sixty plus ten years old; seventy (70) years of age.
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threescore, adj. [OE scoru, notch, tally, the number of twenty.]
Phrase. “at threescore and ten”: sixty plus ten years old; seventy (70) years of age.
Return to page 20 of the letter “t”.