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lazar house

noun

Etymology

From lazar + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as lazar house — “lazar + house”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of leprosery

    Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

    • […] Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds […]

  2. A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA