Also 6 Sc. lustir, 6– (now U.S.) luster. [Anglicized form of LUSTRUM.] A period of five years.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 29. Thritty yere of vj. lustres.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. v. 94. Eftir mony lustris and ȝeiris ourslidin is.
1685. Boyle, Free Enq., p. xiii. The following Discourse was written … some Lustres ago.
1715. Garth, Claremont, 221. The fourth bright Lustre had but just begun To shade his blushing cheeks with doubtful down.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 9. So it will be the turn of you young folks, come eight more lustres, and your heads will be bald like mine.
1899. O. Seaman, In Cap & Bells (1900), 27. After a lustre of celibacy She married with a publican.
