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Lazar   Listen
noun
Lazar  n.  A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. "Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay."
Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.






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"Lazar" Quotes from Famous Books



... long, low house, with pointed windows on the upper storey, and a deep verandah shading the ground-floor rooms. It faced the south, and although few flowers were out, the ruined garden was luxuriant with decay. One could see where the old Lazar-house had been overlaid with the taste of more recent inhabitants, but, as Caleb said, no one had lived here now for a dozen years or more. The walls were smeared with green vegetation; the iron gate creaked heavily with ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... the air. There shall be a spy in every man's house, a traitor on every hearth, a hangman in every village, a gibbet in every square. Plague, leprosy, or fever shall be less deadly than my wrath; I will make every frontier a grave-yard, every province a lazar-house, and cure the sick by the sword. I shall have peace in Russia, though it be the peace of the dead. Who said I was a coward? Who said I was afraid? See, thus shall I crush this people beneath my feet! (Takes up sword of CZAREVITCH off table ...
— Vera - or, The Nihilists • Oscar Wilde



Words linked to "Lazar" :   sick person, lazar house, diseased person



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