lazar house

Etymology
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Noun

 * : A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
 * 1) * 15th c., William of Worcester, “The Rolle of Sencte Bartholemeweis Priorie” cited in William Barrett, The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol, 1789, p. 429,
 * These bee alle the bookes ynne the ache Camberre & of the reste of the Lazar house bee cellis & beddis for the Lazars, beeynge manie in number
 * 1) * 1965, (translator), Madness and Civilization by  (1961), New York: Random House, Chapter 1, “Stultifera Navis”,
 * The lazar house of Nancy, which was among the largest in Europe, had only four inmates during the regency of Marie de Médicis.
 * 1)  A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.
 * 1)  A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.