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seventy +‎ -odd

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seventyodd

  1. Slightly more than seventy.
    • 1905 September, Ferris Greenslet, “Significant Poetry”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      If we conceive of the poetry that has been written in English in the last twelve months as a kind of Purgatory, a mountainous cone like Dante’s, with a spiral pathway leading to its summit, we shall find among the one hundred and seventyodd volumes on its lower rounds no ponderable significance; but midway in the ascent we come to a score or more of poets with something to say for themselves.