lustrum

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Noun
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lus=trum

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lustrum has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

lustrumn. [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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lustrum, n. (pl. lustra or lustrums) a period of five years.

Etymology
L, an orig. purificatory sacrifice after a quinquennial census

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