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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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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There he drew up his army and performed a lustration of it by the sacrifices called suovetaurilia, and that was called the closing of the lustrum, because that was the conclusion of the census.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus