lustrum
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
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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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The closing of the lustrum was later than usual, because the censors sent persons through the provinces, that a report might be made of the number of Roman citizens in each of the armies.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius
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
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
They counted their eras and ages which they put in their books by groups of twenty years and by lustra of four years.
From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means
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
In the evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums.
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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
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
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
