lustrum
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Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull.
From Time Magazine Archive
On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum.
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
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Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
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Cneius Domitius, the first plebeian censor, holds a lustrum; the number of the citizens found to be two hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred and twenty-two.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Titus Livius
He accepted of the tribunitian power for life, but more than once chose a colleague in that office for two lustra 147 successively.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
This led to the computation of time amongst the Romans, by lustra, or periods of five years.
From Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux
Sary passed her hand over the lustra design on the shade and Mrs. Brewster turned to leave the room.
From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
All the sunny glow of the great Roman's genius seems reflected in this revival of his sentiments, albeit under varying physical conditions, well-nigh three hundred and fifty lustra afterwards.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Thus passed away two lustra of her life, and as yet my daughter remained nameless upon the earth.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
In the evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums.
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They counted their ages and eras, which they inscribed in their books every twenty years, in lustrums of four years.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Augustus Le Plongeon
Forty-seven; I'll no' deny it, Lundie; and if I get Mabel, there'll be just a wife for every twa lustrums.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper
Eight lustrums pure celestial eyes Beamed through her tender, loving gaze, Commingling all the sweet surprise Of heavenly with the earthly rays.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
And whilst so many lustrums of the sun Rolled on across the sky, men led a life After the roving habit of wild beasts.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
