lustrum
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Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum.
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
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These hirelings usually receive about five francs a day, but as the number of the chevaliers of the revolutionary lustrum increases, the pay diminishes, until it is finally reduced to forty sous.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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
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
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
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
They counted their ages and eras, which they inscribed in their books every twenty years, in lustrums of four years.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Augustus Le Plongeon
Forty-seven; I'll no' deny it, Lundie; and if I get Mabel, there'll be just a wife for every twa lustrums.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper
We who have lived fifteen lustrums have already witnessed the dissolution of our world.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
