Definition of "five-and-twenty" []

• Twenty-five. (noun)

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• "He was young, not more than five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his strength of mind to control."
• "“Some five-and-twenty or thirty,” said Donald, “his ordinary retinue.”"
• "Venus, temperate and favourable, abideth in each sign five-and-twenty days."