Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as lazaretto.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
- n. (Naut.) A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
Etymologies
- From French lazaret, from Italian lazzaretto. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was in charge of their "lazaret," or dispensary, and he said my ankle had to be set.”
“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.”
“They visited a lazaret in Carlsruhe, where the German Red Cross was caring for German wounded. 14”
“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.”
Wired: Timeline for Tenacious Trip to Southeast Farallon Island on January 28, 2007
“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.”
“The island is believed to be the world's first lazaret — a quarantine colony intended to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases.”
“Emergency dental treatment could be obtained in the German lazaret.”
“More serious cases went to the German camp lazaret, outside the compound.”
“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
“The portreeve asked if we could not stay in the lazaret, and when I shook my head, we - the pcrtreeve, Dorcas, and I - went there to permit him to argue with the physician in charge, who, as I had predicted, refused to have us.”
The Shadow of the Torturer
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lazaret’.
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
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Words from Deep Survival, by Laurence...
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Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
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For stuff to simply reside.
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Cormac McCarthy
words from Cormac McCarthy books.
rucked, pinchbeck, cinderblock, sumac, pokeweed, frograils, fishplates, bolo, rictus, polyp, neap, flitch and 58 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "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 Jun 7, 2010
chained_bear "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. Sep 18, 2009