Definition of "lazar-house" [lazar-house]

• A lazaretto. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital."
• ""I will give one thousand sucres to the lazar-house of Quito if a bull kills a man this day.""
• "It is most unreasonable to flee the knowledge of good like the infection of a horrible disease, and batten and grow fat in the real atmosphere of a lazar-house."