lazar-house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "John Gilbert, in his deed of 1538, states, that he had purchased three messuages and two little closes adjoining, by the highway-side near Newton Bushell, and that it was his intention to build a lazar-house, for the reception of a greater number of lazars than the three cottages would contain, with a chapel ; the house and the closes to be occupied by the said lazars : he gives the sum of 220 marks to the corporation, on condition that they should pay yearly the sum of 4l. per annum to the lazars in the said house."
- "In 1473 there existed a lazar-house for the reception of those afflicted with leprosy, at Eche near Sandwich."
- "Let them seize the woman and put her in a lazar-house, and for a year let her grind [flour] for the lepers."
- "In The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind (1740), Watts takes up the old 17th century view of the world as a hospital or lazar-house:"