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

  Decade \Dec"ade\, n. [F. d['e]cade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr. ?,
     fr. de`ka ten. See {Ten}.]
     A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a
     decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of
     soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also {decad}.]
     [1913 Webster]


  
           During this notable decade of years.     --Gladstone.
     Decadence

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

  Decad \Dec"ad\, n.
     A decade.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Averill was a decad and a half his elder. --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]

















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