Examples of 'lustrum' in a sentence
Meaning of "lustrum"
lustrum: (noun) a period of five years, typically used in historical or formal contexts
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- A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
- Synonym of quinquennium: Any 5-year period.
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The first lustrum was for construction.
Five years or half a decade is a lustrum.
A lustrum is a period of five years.
Probably got another lustrum in me.
Lustrum and Kline are both in it.
Still more of a charmer is the one completing his third lustrum.
Martial also uses the expression lustrum ingens for saeculum.
And this Lustrum week is first and foremost a time of celebration.
The two censors were relatively liberal in their lustrum and degraded none.
In ancient Rome a lustrum was the name for the sacrifice and celebration of a five-year period.
Such a celebration is called a Lustrum.
A sadly frequent scene during the lustrum that lasted the Great Famine.
The death of Publius Furius prevented their completing the lustrum.
The term is taken from the Roman lustrum purification rituals.
There, only a few olive trees grew, that only sprouted fruits a couple of times per lustrum.
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His visa is sponsored by Lustrum Holdings.
Lustrum ( plural lustra ) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome.
These were the twenty-sixth pair of censors since the first, the lustrum was the nineteenth.
L1010 Lustrum Time interval of five consecutive years sometimes used in the study of meteorological elements.
Patrick . Patrick told me he was looking into Lustrum.
Some scholars extrapolate that like the lustrum ( purification ritual ), the Ludi Taurii were regularly quinquennial.
It is a great pleasure to announce our winterconcert, entitled “ Winter silence ”, celebrating our first Lustrum.
No, a decade is a period of 10 years and a lustrum is a period of 5 years.
The last lustrum was solemnized at Rome, in AD 74, in the reign of Vespasian.
Five years, half a decade, is a lustrum.
For the lustrum edition, they launched a new concept: 'II=I' pronounced Two is One.
