- fourscore (n.)
[fourscore 词源字典]
- "eighty, four times twenty," mid-13c., "formerly current as an ordinary numeral" [OED], from four + score (n.). Archaic by the time Lincoln used it at Gettysburg in 1863. Related: Fourscorth "eightieth."[fourscore etymology, fourscore origin, 英语词源]