Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lazaretto .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
- noun (Naut.) A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lazaretto . - noun nautical A
lazaretto .
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- noun hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was in charge of their "lazaret," or dispensary, and he said my ankle had to be set.
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The delegate asked that in future the Head of the Detachment should be authorised to send wounded or injured man direct to the neighbouring lazaret.
Work Camp 487 L 2010
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They visited a lazaret in Carlsruhe, where the German Red Cross was caring for German wounded. 14
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When Jim is sailing the boat, he sits on the arched Captain's seat or on the small lazaret seats above the propane tank lockers; these seating areas have no cushions.
Timeline for Tenacious Trip to Southeast Farallon Island on January 28, 2007 Richard Mogford Bob Bilger 2007
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When Jim is sailing the boat, he sits on the arched Captain's seat or on the small lazaret seats above the propane tank lockers; these seating areas have no cushions.
Timeline for Tenacious Trip to Southeast Farallon Island on January 28, 2007 2007
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The lazaret was opened during the plague outbreaks that decimated Venice, as well as much of Europe, throughout the 15th and 16th centuries A.D.
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The island is believed to be the world's first lazaret — a quarantine colony intended to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
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Emergency dental treatment could be obtained in the German lazaret.
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More serious cases went to the German camp lazaret, outside the compound.
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I followed him down a dark hallway into a room much lower and darker than the lazaret, where two or three score dimarchi like himself were bent over a midday meal of fresh bread, beef, and boiled greens.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
chained_bear commented on the word lazaret
"The Mary Celeste was lengthened by four feet and had four feet added to its draft. A storage area for the crew's food and supplies—a lazaret—was built on the stern."
—Brian Hicks, Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew (NY: Ballantine Books, 2004), 49
See also lazarette.
September 18, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word lazaret
"Biscuits again! In a few days, just you watch, there will be more worms than flour."
"I wouldn't mind taking a peek at the food stores in the lazaret."
The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet, translated by Willard Wood, p 83
June 8, 2010