"four-and-twenty" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)",
          "text": "Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye."
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          "ref": "2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.",
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          "sense": "archaic way of saying 24",
          "word": "neljäkolmatta"
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          "sense": "archaic way of saying 24",
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