Meaning of lazar house | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
   archaic
2. A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.
   archaic, figuratively

Examples

“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 […]”

“[…] Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds […]”

“1965, Richard Howard (translator), Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault (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.”

“A portion of the Infirmary of the town was added to that already set apart for a fever-ward; the smitten were carried thither at once, whenever it was possible, in order to prevent the spread of infection; and on that lazar-house was concentrated all the medical skill and force of the place.”

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