Meanings of lustrum in English

I assented; adding that I had not yet concluded my third lustrum.

The dictator then both performed the games and vowed them for the following lustrum.

The death of Publius Furius prevented their completing the lustrum.

Nor had this lustrum of fierce contention wrought less upon his heart and intellect.

I have entered my last lustrum, or five years.

A day, perhaps a year, at most a lustrum.

The lustrum was closed this year by the censors Publius Cornelius Arvina and Caius Marcius Rutilus.

And yet I felt quite happy, in spite of the tenth lustrum so near at hand for me.

These were the twenty-sixth pair of censors since the first institution of that office; and this the nineteenth lustrum.

A meditative man in his sixth lustrum can be very happy with pruning-hook and shears among his young trees.

The lustrum which saw the birth of Robert Browning, that is the third in the nineteenth century, was a remarkable one indeed.

To these promises and their fulfillment I shall recur in a résumé of the lustrum during which Mr. Conried was operatic consul.

The Bohemian language, although improving and evidently rising in esteem with every lustrum of the fifteenth century, had however not yet supplanted the Latin.

The term of office of the censors at first was a lustrum or five years, but ten years later it was limited to eighteen months.

We who have lived fifteen lustrums have already witnessed the dissolution of our world.

Forty-seven; I'll no' deny it, Lundie; and if I get Mabel, there'll be just a wife for every twa lustrums.