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 wretched lazar with clinking of his bell, Hath life which doth the courtiers excell; The caytif begger hath meate and libertie, When courtiers hunger in harde captivitie.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Out of that grim den of death, out of that floating lazar house, there came a few blooming maidens and stalwart youths, like fair flowers springing from the rankness of a charnel.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
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 Sir Walter Besant
A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
Ask me not what I would be, if I were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus.
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
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