| lazar | A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. "Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay." (Spenser) Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. Origin: OF. Lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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