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 Lazar House or Lazaretto.Lazarillo de Tormës (1553). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Laz’arists.
 
A body of missionaries founded by St. Vincent de Paul in 1624, and so termed from the priory of St. Lazare, at Paris, which was their head-quarters from 1632 to 1792.   1
 


 Lazar House or Lazaretto.Lazarillo de Tormës (1553). 

 
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