lustrum
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
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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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Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.
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Thus it is, that nine-tenths of the Catos you mention are forgotten, even by name, every political lustrum.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
