lazar
Americannoun
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Origin of lazar
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin lazarus leper, special use of Late Latin Lazarus Lazarus
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The fearful scourge was so prevalent that there was not a town, hardly a village, in any country of Europe which had not, in those centuries, its lepers and its lazar house, great or small.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
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 Thomas Holmes
Still, I haven't any home, you see, and I'm not sure that a lazar hospital of some kind isn't what is awaiting me.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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 J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
But he hath made an excellent lazar of it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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