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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"Lye still, lazar, wheras thou lyest, Looke thou goe not hence away; Ile make thee a whole man and a sound In two howers of the day."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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
There came a lazar to the kings gate, A lazar both blinde and lame; He tooke the lazar upon his backe,15 Him on the queenes bed has layne.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
If there was a period of comparative rest and peace in that lazar ship, choked to the gunwales with human nature's foulest disorders, it was between the second and third hour after midnight.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
No beggar or lazar was ever turned from his door without receiving some mark of his bounty, whether in money or in kind.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
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