lazar
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- lazar-like adjective
- lazarlike adjective
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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Out of that grim den of death, out of that floating lazar house, there came a few blooming maidens and stalwart youths, like fair flowers springing from the rankness of a charnel.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)
On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all these lazar houses were suppressed.
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
It was burnt to ashes, and all his little property with it, but his wife, Ellen, escaped with her husband and infant to a Dutch lazar, or encampment.
From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet
"Yes, but you are much in want of a revolution like our own—not against your king, who is a mere child, but against that lazar of an Italian, the queen's favorite."
From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre
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 Holmes, Thomas
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