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Old September 15, 2010, 02:15 PM
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En lustros

Can someone translate this term?
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Según DRAE un lustro es un periodo de cinco años.
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That's right. I might just add that the meaning of the expression is, I think, an equivalent of "for ages", because five years is perceived as a long period of time.
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Oh good. I haven't come across this term beform.
No te he visto en lustros
I haven't seen you in ages. I haven't seen you in a dog's age.
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English lustration, Latin lustrum, a purificatory sacrifice, performed by the censors at the end of their five-year office, hence a period of five years.
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Que no tiene nada que ver con los planes quinquenales rusos...
¿O sí?
Me suena a palabra "culta". La primera vez que la oí, fue a mi abuela Carmen...

Es más o menos equivalente a "quinquenio".

Un ejemplo de Nicaragua:
Yo, Lucio Galo, un lustro después de haber escrito lo anterior, confieso que no me arrepiento de lo intentado.

Un ejemplo de Perú (acerca de Humboldt)
Desde ahora y durante un lustro, nada podrá detenerlo en su pasión investigadora: ni la variedad de climas, que en una jornada le permitirían experimentar el bochorno de las tórridas hondonadas y en poco espacio el rigor de los híspidos páramos, azotados por un viento incisivo; ni las torrenteras que se despeñaban desde las cimas de la cordillera; ni el pavor de senderos colocados en alturas inverosímiles sobre el precipio; ni el flagelo de las enfermedades tropicales, ni la espesura de bosques enmarañados y las asechanzas de los insectos y sabandijas.

Un ejemplo de Argentina:
Mi padre, pintado en 1506, un lustro y un año antes de que mi venida al mundo le causara tan colérica decepción...

De Cuba:
Mas en balde esperaron aquellas buenas gentes un año y otro año, un lustro y otro lustro, que volviese a cubrirse de sus espléndidas galas [...]

Los ejemplos anteriores (y muchos más) pueden encontrarse en http://corpus.rae.es/citar.htm
REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA: Banco de datos (CREA) [en línea]. Corpus de referencia del español actual. <http://www.rae.es> [16 de septiembre de 2010]

By the way, Random House Unabridged gives
lus·trum, n., pl. -trums, -tra (-trÃ).
1. Also, luster; esp. Brit., lustre. a period of five years.
2. Rom. Hist. a lustration or ceremonial purification of the people, performed every five years, after the taking of the census.
[1580–90; < L lustrum; cf. LUSTER1]
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....and I thought it had something to do with shoe polish. Stupit me.(New York for stupid me)
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Hey, you were not that far off!
(At least these are similar words!)

lustroso -sa
adj ‹ zapato › shiny; ‹ pelo › shiny, glossy; ‹ tela/pantalones › (CS) shiny

lustre m
a (brillo) shine, luster*; dio or sacó lustre a los zapatos he polished the shoes, he gave the shoes a
polish
b (distinción) luster* (liter), glory, distinction; el lustre que dan los años the distinction that comes with
age
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