lustrum

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On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole 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.

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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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Within the current lustrum the prudery which had already, for some seasons, been achieving a vinegar-visaged and corkscrew-curled certain age in letters, has invaded the ball-room, and is infesting it in quantity.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose