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Period of five years
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lustrum
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
(plural lustra ), "purification of the Roman people every five years," 1580s, from Latin lustrum , perhaps from root of luere "to wash," related to lavere (see lave ). Or [Watkins, Klein] from PIE *leuk-stro- , from base *leuk- "light, brightness."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lustrum (, plural lustra ) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome . The lustration was originally a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors in the name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a period of five years a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (qualifier: Roman religion) A lustration or ceremonial purification of all the ancient Roman people, performed every five years, after the taking of the census. 2 A period of five years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lustrum \Lus"trum\, n.; pl. E. Lustrums , L. Lustra . [L. Cf. 2d & 3d Luster .] A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.
Usage examples of lustrum.
And yet I felt quite happy, in spite of the tenth lustrum so near at hand for me.
I was particularly unfortunate with Jeannie Graham, who died in the first lustrum, leaving neither chick nor chiel behind her.
But already, though he did not know it, he was suffering from a disease of the heart, which cut short his life after little more than a lustrum of quiet contentment.
Thus all, or nearly all, the poems ranged under that title, are, as he said -- Relics of the time when I too fared Across the sweet fifth lustrum of my days.
Make the companion of an idle hour These relics of the time when I too fared Across the sweet fifth lustrum of my days.
There were other, happier journeys the family shared during the lustrum spent by Celia with International Sales.
Pillars of Woe and twenty miles closer to Menzoberranzan, Nimor stood in the shadows at the mouth of the Lustrum, a wondrously rich mithral mine.
The Lustrum stood between the army of Gracklstugh and the army of Kaanyr Vhok.
Garret had his girl wife at Otter, and very sunny her existence was for the lustrum of that honeymoon.
Poona, summer government headquarters, depot for artillery, cavalry and favored infantry, sick-and-short-leave station--second-class Simla, as it were, where the pale-faced men and women who have bridled the rising Eastern peril meet once in a lustrum and exchange remarks, was the same after the war as before it.
Bologna have had from Otto Agenius Lustrulanus, whom Mondino had used as an assiduous prosector, if he had not been taken away by a swift and lamentable death before he had completed the sixth lustrum of his life!
I was particularly unfortunate with Jeannie Graham, who died in the first lustrum, leaving neither chick nor chiel behind her.
There were other, happier journeys the family shared during the lustrum spent by Celia with International Sales.
And she liked Lustra, who’d been a good neighbor and friend to both of them.
And she liked Lustra, who'd been a good neighbor and friend to both of them.