lazaretto
noun
a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
lazaret,
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a variation of
lazaretto.
Example Sentences
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And when Mrs. Ryder superintended the steward's work getting these stores out of the lazaret, she smiled very strangely.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
Astrakhan has for some years had a lazaret on the mouths of the Volga at seventy-five versts from its walls.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
"Most likely only another tin skimmer of a yacht," suggested the mate, tossing the eye-splice and the marline-spike into the open hatch of the lazaret.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
The lazaret of a coaster is a storeroom under the quarter-deck—repository of general odds and ends and spare equipment.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
He was in a narrow passageway between two rows of ship's stores that fan fore and after the length of the lazaret.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
