lustrum

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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There he drew up his army and performed a lustration of it by the sacrifices called suovetaurilia, and that was called the closing of the lustrum, because that was the conclusion of the census.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

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

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

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

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

In the evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums.

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It was enough for them, that they were to live asunder two whole years; and two whole years appear like an age to those who have not yet lived their four lustrums.

From The Crater 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

The doctor himself had altered in no essential; he was at that period of man's life—between fifty and sixty—when ravaging time seems to give him a respite for a couple of lustrums.

From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We who have lived fifteen lustrums have already witnessed the dissolution of our world.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee