Lazar

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laz=ar

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Lazar has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Lazarn. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.].
     A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
    "Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay."  [1913 Webster]
Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Lazar, n. archaic a poor and diseased person, esp. a leper.

Etymology
ME f. med.L lazarus f. the name in Luke 16:20

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