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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Because fair orange-mounts Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?—
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
In the noisome lazar houses, amongst the lepers, in the shambles of Newgate, here on the swamps between the walls and the Thames, where men live and suffer.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
From In Darkest England and the Way Out by Booth, William
We can easily conceive the evil eye of a lazar when he encountered a black cloak!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
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 Bindloss, Harold
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