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Lazaretto   Listen
noun
Lazaretto, Lazaret  n.  
1.
A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
2.
(Naut.) A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.





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"Lazaretto" Quotes from Famous Books



... LAZARETTO. A building or vessel appointed for the performance of quarantine, in which all persons are confined coming from places infected with the plague or other infectious diseases. Also, a place parted off at the fore ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... did, but not while I was on board. I pulled up the harbor, and landed the other side of the Lazaretto. Before I reached the shore I saw Cornwood and a swellish-looking fellow rowing to the same landing-place. Cornwood was talking very earnestly to the swell, and continued to do ...
— Up the River - or, Yachting on the Mississippi • Oliver Optic
... Gratitude and Admiration, who followed each speaker at the close of each address to different divisions of this innumerable assembly, displayed, to each division in its turn, an extensive sketch of a simple but magnificent mausoleum to the memory of Howard, in the form of an English lazaretto. On the first display of this striking and worthy monument, the applauding multitude seemed to exult in the prospect of its completion. But I soon observed, to my inexpressible concern, that while Gratitude and Admiration were busy in ...
— The Eulogies of Howard • William Hayley
... your Runnymede. King John made a present to the Barons. King William has made a similar present to you. Never mind common qualities, good in common times. If a man does not vote for the Bill, he is unclean—the plague-spot is upon him—push him into the lazaretto of the last century, with Wetherell[100] and Sadler[101]—purify the air before you approach him—bathe your hands in Chloride of Lime, if you have been contaminated by ...
— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell


Words linked to "Lazaretto" :   hospital, lazaret, lazar house, pesthouse, storage locker, glory hole, lazarette, cabinet, locker


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