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Brewer's: Lustrum
A space of five years. The word means a purification. These public expiations were made at Rome by one of the censors every fifth year, at the conclusion of the census. (Latin, luere, to purify.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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