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Definition of Lazar house
1. Noun. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).
Definition of Lazar house
1. Noun. A place to quarantine leprous people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazar House
Literary usage of Lazar house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"Here also at a very short distance from the site of the old lazar house or Spital
at Upper Holloway is the Smallpox Hospital. The Midland and the Great ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1852)
"At Knightsbridge the chapel which belonged to the Lazar-house is still maintained;
as recently was that at Kingsland, until pulled down in June 1846. ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1855)
"... fear, and sorrow than was his ; when the earth will not be in essentially the
same measure as it now is, a vale of tears; a lazar-house of suffering and ..."
4. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1892)
"... the '* Railway King "—The Cannon Brewery—Dunn's Chinese Gallery—Trinity Chapel
and the lazar house—"Irregular" Marriages—Knightsbridge Barracks—Smith ..."
5. Museum of Painting and Sculpture: Or, Collection of the Principal Pictures by Etienne Achille Réveil, Jean Duchesne (1833)
"... THE VISION OF THE LAZAR-HOUSE. AFTER the fall of man, the Archangel Michael
is sent lo our first parents, ..."
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