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Lustrum

noun
(pl. E. lustrums, L. lustra)
1.
A period of five years.
2.
A ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census.





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"Lustrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Piscataquay planters, furnished in 1635, varied somewhat from that just enumerated. Their waistcoats were scarlet, and they had cassocks of cloth and canvas, instead of doublets. Though scarce more than a lustrum had passed since the settlement on the shores of the Bay, long hose like the Florentine hose had become entirely old-fashioned and breeches were the wear. Coats—"lynd coats, papous coats, and moose coats"—had also been invented, ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... Bransby, the future poet spent a lustrum of his life neither unprofitably nor, apparently, ungenially. Dr. Bransby, who is himself so quaintly portrayed in Poe's tale of 'William Wilson', described "Edgar Allan," by which name only he knew the lad, as "a quick and clever boy," who "would have been a very good boy had he ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
... eyes heavenward, and sighs and rubs his hands in joyful satisfaction. To us, this Servitor of the Christ seemed not to have passed the climacteric. But truly, as he avowed, he was entering the fifth lustrum beyond it. Such are the advantages of the ascetic life, and of such ascetics the Kingdom of Heaven. A man of sixty can carry twenty years in his pocket, and seem all honesty, and ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... for our 50 cash, paid as per tablet for a destiny in detail:—"Beware the odd months of this year: you will meet with some dangers and slight losses. Three male phoenixes (sons) will be accorded to you. Your present lustrum is not a fortunate one; but it has nearly expired, and better days are at hand. Fruit cannot thrive in the winter. (We had placed our birthday in the 12th moon.) Conflicting elements oppose: towards life's close prepare for trials. Wealth is beyond your grasp; but nature has marked ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles


Words linked to "Lustrum" :   ceremony, Roma, Rome, antiquity, period, lustrate, time period, Italian capital, Eternal City, capital of Italy, period of time


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