forties
adjective B1- From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s). · Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.
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Chandler protracted his walk until the Forties began to intersect the great and glittering primrose way, for the evening was yet young, and when one is of the _beau monde_ only one day in seventy, one loves to protract the pleasure.
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