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- noun Obsolete spelling of
fifty . (50)
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Examples
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Some write that those ambassadours sent from the French king, with other from earle John, came to the emperor before king Richard was deliuered, offering in the French kings name fiftie thousand marks of siluer, and in the name of earle
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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Also the Queen was very bounteous, giving me a paper worth fiftie pounds, as I am assured, to pay my expenses here and back agen.
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The London Company set their value at “one hundredth and fiftie pounds of the best leafe Tobacco.”
History of American Women Maggiemac 2007
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Angler, if he has found where they lye, may catch fortie or fiftie, or sometimes twice so many at a standing.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Of a certaine rich man, who is fed and nourished by fiftie virgins.
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And after three yeeres I departed out of the empire of Cataie, trauailing fiftie dayes iourney towards the West.
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Then passing many dayes ioumey on forward, I came vnto a certaine citie called Comum, which was an huge and mightie Citie in olde time, conteyning well nigh fiftie miles in circuite, and hath done in times past great damage vnto the Romanes.
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The lord of the same citie hath in yeerely reuenues for salt onely, fiftie
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Of a certaine rich man, who is fed and nourished by fiftie virgins.
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Ierusalem (whither the three foresaid wise-men were miraculously led) it is fiftie days iourney.
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