lazar Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person afflicted with leprosy
    leper.

WordNet

La"zar noun
Etymology
OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.
Definitions
  1. A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer.
    Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser.

Webster 1913