Pentecoster

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pentecoster \Pen`te*cos"ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? fifty.]
     (Gr. Antiq.)
     An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
     --Mitford.
     [1913 Webster]