lustrum
Example Sentences
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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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It is only once in a lustrum that I visit my Uncle Theodore.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
