lazar
a person infected with a disease, especially leprosy.
Origin of lazar
1Other words from lazar
- laz·ar·like, adjective
Words Nearby lazar
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How to use lazar in a sentence
I meet Allie lazar in Palermo Viejo on the last night of my search.
The stranger was Swifty lazar, super-agent to stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Gene Kelly.
The Week in Death: George Jacobs, Sinatra’s Domestic Confidant | The Telegraph | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI urged lazar to get his eyes back on the road, if indeed he could see it, and asked why the subject was taboo.
Beware Hollywood Memoirs: They’re Dull and Overrated | Michael Korda | December 27, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTlazar never minded, he would just say, “OK, how much will you give me for Gene Kelly then?”
Beware Hollywood Memoirs: They’re Dull and Overrated | Michael Korda | December 27, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTEvening's Empire by Zachary lazar A son untangles the events leading up to the mob hit on his accountant father in 1970s Phoenix.
Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyThe inmates of lazar hospitals were in the habit of begging in the market-places.
Haunted London | Walter ThornburyHe stopped on his way to visit a lazar-house, and help in the care of the lepers.
Brother Francis | Eileen DouglasNot only did the Turks put him to death, but they decapitated their prisoner, Prince lazar, and all the other chiefs.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry BaerleinOver some of our Scotch lazar-houses, chaplains, and religious officers with the high-church title of priors, were placed.
Archaeological Essays Vol. 2 | James Y. Simpson
British Dictionary definitions for lazar
/ (ˈlæzə) /
an archaic word for leper
Origin of lazar
1Derived forms of lazar
- lazar-like, adjective
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