seventeenth
/ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/ noun C2- One of seventeen equal parts of a whole. · A seventeeth of 340 is 20.
- An interval of two octaves and a third.
Plural seventeenths
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The Manor House, with its many gables and its small diamond-paned windows, was still much as the builder had left it in the early seventeenth century.
Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
The half-panelled walls may well have belonged to the original yeoman farmer of the seventeenth century.
“‘The original has no date, but is in the spelling of the middle of the seventeenth century,’ remarked Musgrave.
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