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four score and seven years ago adv

(idiomatic, often humorous) Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago. This phrase begins the Gettysburg Address, which was made by the United States President Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1863.

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