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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Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
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Between this remarkable book and the later ones of the same lustrum, we may conveniently take up the thread of biography proper where we last dropped it.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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
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
In the evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums.
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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
Dost thou not envy that smirk young knave with his five lustrums, though it goes hard with him to purchase his kid-gloves?
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
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
George III. had been on the throne not less than three lustrums, and most of the important actors of the period of '45, were dead;—many of them, in a degree, forgotten.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
