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lazar
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tags: [archaic]
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Definition:a leper
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Thereto he strong was as a champion,
And knew well the taverns in every town.
And every hosteler and gay tapstere,
Better than a lazar or a beggere,
For unto such a worthy man as he
Accordeth not, as by his faculty,
To have with such lazars acquaintance.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems .
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And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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at every moment knocked their heads against the walls of this huge and alien lazar-house secluding them from their lost homes.
Albert Camus. The Plague (Stuart Gilbert translation) (1948)
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