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An hospital.
“A spittle or hospital for poore folks diseased a spittle, hospitall, or lazarhouse for lepers.”—Baret: Alveaire (1580).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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