Lazar

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

lazar
    n 1: a person afflicted with leprosy [syn: {leper}, {lazar}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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         Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. --Spenser.
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   {Lazar house} a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.
      [1913 Webster] Lazaret