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lazar
[ laz-er, ley-zer ]
noun
- a person infected with a disease, especially leprosy.
lazar
/ ˈlæzə /
Derived Forms
- ˈlazar-ˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- lazar·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of lazar1
Example Sentences
I meet Allie Lazar in Palermo Viejo on the last night of my search.
The stranger was Swifty Lazar, super-agent to stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Gene Kelly.
I urged Lazar to get his eyes back on the road, if indeed he could see it, and asked why the subject was taboo.
Lazar never minded, he would just say, “OK, how much will you give me for Gene Kelly then?”
Evening's Empire by Zachary Lazar A son untangles the events leading up to the mob hit on his accountant father in 1970s Phoenix.
Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
The inmates of lazar hospitals were in the habit of begging in the market-places.
He stopped on his way to visit a lazar-house, and help in the care of the lepers.
Not only did the Turks put him to death, but they decapitated their prisoner, Prince Lazar, and all the other chiefs.
Over some of our Scotch lazar-houses, chaplains, and religious officers with the high-church title of priors, were placed.
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