"four-and-twenty" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Paralipomenon 27:2, page 863:",
          "text": "Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand.",
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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": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:",
          "text": "\"He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]\"",
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          "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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        },
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