Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hospital treating contagious diseases.
- noun A building or ship used as a quarantine station.
- noun A storage space between the decks of a ship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hospital or pest-house for the reception of diseased persons, particularly of those affected with contagious diseases; also, a prison hospital. At seaports the name is often given to a vessel used for this purpose.
- noun A building or vessel where ships' crews, passengers, and goods are detained during quarantine.
- noun In some large merchant ships, a place near the stern where provisions and stores for the voyage are kept.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
medical facility specializing in the care forcontagious patients. - noun A
ship or building used forquarantine . - noun nautical An area on some merchant ships where provisions are stored.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
- noun a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is a very large lazaretto, which is said to be one of the best managed in the world.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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* A lazaretto was usually a pest-house for smallpox and other contagious diseases, but here is used for quarantine. but Neilson happily was the very officer, from whom we should have had our certificate, so having the seal of office in his trunk, *
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The lazaretto is a wretched building, with a flagstaff and two houses projecting on the two sides.
The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Archduke of Austria Ludwig Salvator 1881
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Chris, who could now lash the wheel, covered the tired man with blankets from below, and went fishing in the lazaretto for something to eat.
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The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto entrance on the street.
Les Miserables 2008
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I have now come far enough to meet you on a common ground of fact; and I tell you that, to a mind not prejudiced by jealousy, all the reforms of the lazaretto, and even those which he most vigorously opposed, are properly the work of Damien.
Lay Morals 2005
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When I visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave.
Lay Morals 2005
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Such an occurrence as a death in a lazaretto, mere selfishness renders striking.
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Egypt, with a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal lazaretto cemetery.
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A doctor felt his pulse by deputy — a clergyman comes from the town to read the last service over him — and the friends, who attend his funeral, are marshalled by lazaretto-guardians, so as not to touch each other.
chained_bear commented on the word lazaretto
"...as they glided down the long, long inlet... On, past the lazaretto, past the hospital island..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 69
March 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word lazaretto
"In 1707, the legislature of South Carolina passed a law that called for the construction of a brick building on the Cove. The structure had dimensions of sixteen by thirty feet and was known as the lazaretto, or alternatively, the 'pest house.' The term 'lazaretto' comes from Italian and means leper's house or plague hospital, a place where the diseased poor, especially foreigners, could be forced to stay. 'Pest house' arose in the spare imagination of the English colonists. The pest house was to provide a quarantine place where pestilence from the sea—diseases found among ship passengers—might be allowed to run its course."
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 89
September 26, 2009
qms commented on the word lazaretto
This wild contagion must be addressed
By confining each vector with the rest -
A lexicomane’s ghetto
Or a weird lazaretto:
Wordnik's wards for the word-obsessed.
January 30, 2014
hernesheir commented on the word lazaretto
Nice one, qms.
January 31, 2014
qms commented on the word lazaretto
Thank you kindly, hernesheir.
January 31, 2014