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eighty

/ˈeɪ.ti/ numeral A1
  1. The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.
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The following morning, with the banker’s usual punctuality, the eighty thousand francs were placed in the young man’s hands, as he was on the point of starting, after having left two hundred francs for Caderousse.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 827 · C1
There was eighty odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 70 · B2
The same night, such a man of regularity was the patron of La Jeune Amélie, the profits were divided, and each man had a hundred Tuscan livres, or about eighty francs.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 239 · C1
There were a thousand ingots of gold, each weighing from two to three pounds; then he piled up twenty-five thousand crowns, each worth about eighty francs of our money, and bearing the effigies of Alexander VI.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 264 · C1

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