lustrum in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The trade of the -- eh -- lustrum...
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In these cases, the lustrum was not performed because of some great calamities that had befallen the republic.
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I suggest, over the next lustrum -- don't you just love that word -- it's a buy.
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These censuses were taken at five-year intervals, thus a lustrum came to refer to the five-year inter-census period.
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Units of time consisting of a number of years include the lustrum (five years) and the olympiad (four years).
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As this purification took place only once in five years, the word lustrum was also used to designate the time between two lustra.
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In the earliest period of the republic, the business of the census and the solemnities of the lustrum were performed by the consuls.
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But what on earth is a lustrum?
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As the coincidence, however, was not perfect, a month of 24 days was interposed in every eleventh lustrum.
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The time when the lustrum took place has been calculated.
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