lazar
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lazar
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin lazarus leper, special use of Late Latin Lazarus Lazarus
Vocabulary lists containing lazar
Example Sentences
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Thus the Palace of St. James stands upon the site of a lazar house founded before the Conquest for fourteen leprous maidens.
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
No beggar or lazar was ever turned from his door without receiving some mark of his bounty, whether in money or in kind.
From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron
"Lye still, lazar, wheras thou lyest, Looke thou goe not hence away; Ile make thee a whole man and a sound In two howers of the day."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Wounded and spent to the lazar they drew, Lining the road where the Legions roll through.
From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard
What of them? how long are these "lazar houses" to stand with open door waiting to receive, swallow, transform and eject young humanity?
From London's Underworld by Holmes, Thomas
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