Pentecosties

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

  Pentecosty \Pen`te*cos"ty\, n.; pl. {Pentecosties}. [Gr. ?, fr.
     ? the fiftieth, ? fifty.] (Gr. Antiq.)
     A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also
     {pentecostys}. --Jowett (Thucyd. ).
     [1913 Webster] Pentelic