lazar [
'læzә]
lazar[ noun ]
a person afflicted with leprosy
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Lazar \La"zar\, n. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke
xvi. 20.]
A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a
leper. --Chaucer.
Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. --Spenser.
{Lazar house} a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.