lazarhouse

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English

Noun

lazarhouse (plural lazarhouses)

  1. Alternative form of lazar house
    • 1871, The Parish in History and in Church and State, page 14:
      When the lazarhouse 'chanced to come down' under Edward VI, no doubt the grantee of the lazarhouse got rid of the obligation to provide this refreshment, and transferred the broad-bottomed bowl to the neighbouring publichouse, where for two centuries afterwards it occasioned, in the procession to Tyburn, the reve so graphically described by Mr. Ainsworth.
    • 2014, Margaret Pelling, The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England, →ISBN, page 93:
      A second phase of Wright's life began when he married as his second wife Alice Edwards, whose first husband, Eilliam Edwards, had rented St Bennet's gates lazarhouse and taken charge of poor diseased people for at least 25 years up to 1614.
    • 2014, Ellis Peters, The Leper Of Saint Giles, →ISBN:
      He'd need to be mad to exchange even a gaol for a lazarhouse.
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