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Meanings of lazar house in English
Portuguese
leprosário Catalan
llebroseria 
A place where leprous people are isolated from the rest of the population.
Usage of lazar house in English
1
A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
2
Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazar house of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity.
3
They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
4
I have tracked him, then, to this Lazar House.
5
In the Middle Ages such dwellings administered by a Christian order were called lazar houses, after the parable of Lazarus the beggar.
6
And of those taken into the lazar houses it was written: The leper brothers are to remain by themselves, and likewise the sisters by themselves.