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
Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
From Time Magazine Archive
On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
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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 Livius, Titus
