ninesome

plural ninesomes

1. A group of nine persons or things.

   In the ninesome reel the dance is fully organized; i.e. there is no arbitrary change of partner, and quite sophisticated dance-figures occur.

   1954, The Folk Dancer, volumes 1-3, page 34

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   As they stood before a staid cast-iron gate across the street from where they work, they made as toothsome a ninesome as could ever be glimpsed anywhere.

   1958 October 13, LIFE

   On that day, representatives from each country's business community presented their fifty-one detailed recommendations to an impressive trinational ninesome.

   2008, Stephen Clarkson, Does North America Exist?: Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11, page 441