† ˈlazar-cote Obs.
[f. lazar + cote n.1]
A hut or lodge for the reception of lazars.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur viii. xxxv, Syr said Gouernaile she is put in a lazar cote. 1493 Will of Spencer (Somerset Ho.), The iiij Lazarcottes nygh London. 1536 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 157 Thomas Barnwell..shalbe one of the visitors of the spyttelhowses, or lazar cotes, about this Citye. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 477 (bis) His [Bilney's] preaching at the lazar cots. |