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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The property of the abbey was then immense; it comprised all the country which surrounds us, kept up several lazar houses in the neighbourhood, and was the home of more than three hundred monks.
From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Yet here, within, was a reeking house of flesh—not the lazar ward of the city slum, but the sweating den of a competitive age.
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Mather, Marshall
Lā′zar-like, like a lazar: full of sores: leprous.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 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
Explain the meaning and historical significance of lazar, l.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund
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