Obs. [f. LAZAR + COTE sb.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.
