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Lazzaroni

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Laz`za`ro´ni    (lăz`zå`rō´nĭ; It. lät`så`rō´nė)
n. pl.1.The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; - so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge.


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Neither are picturesque lazzaroni or romantic criminals half so frequent as your common labourer, who gets his own bread and eats it vulgarly but creditably with his own pocket-knife.
There remain a few idle men of fortune, tavern and grog-shop loungers, lazzaroni, old bachelors, decaying maidens, and people of crooked intellect or temper, all of whom may find their like, or some tolerable approach to it, in the plentiful diversity of our latter class.
you thought to make us, unhappy strangers, trot at the heels of your processions, like so many lazzaroni, because no carriages or horses are to be had in your beggarly city.
 
 
 
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