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Archaic word used in Rooster Cogburn

posted 9 years ago by tdhoneycutt
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I need some help here. I just saw Rooster Cogburn again (for who knows how many times before.) There is a scene where Rooster is telling Eula how long he has been on the scout and he says "five ..." And uses a word starting with an L - lanstrum, lunstrum, something like that. Eula doesn't know the word, so Rooster explains it is "five decades."
Anybody know the word and it's origin?

[–] sarge-19 9 years ago

I think its lustrum. It's supposed to mean five years.

[–] wrlord2001 9 years ago

Google is your friend.

[–] porfle 8 years ago

Rooster gets that word from the judge earlier in the film. He has to ask what it means. Later he starts using it himself because it sounds fancy.

[–] fcabanski 8 years ago

Lustrum was a census sacrifice in Rome.