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Lazar
CIDE DICTIONARY
Lazar, n. [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]
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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