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.
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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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The man who dies at fifty or sixty or seventy, after progressing all his life, doubtless would, if he had lived a lustrum or a decade longer, have attained to a still greater height.
From A Traveller in Little Things by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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 Poe, Edgar Allan
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 Vaux, Frances Bowyer
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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
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 Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
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 Means, Philip Ainsworth
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 Leonard, William Ellery
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
Two presidential lustrums of Grant and one of Hayes had erased from the hearts of men the burning sensations of impeachment.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
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
