lazaretto
Americannoun
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lazarettos
plural
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a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
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a building or a ship set apart for quarantine purposes.
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Also called glory hole. Nautical. a small storeroom within the hull of a ship, especially one at the extreme stern.
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Also called: glory hole. nautical a small locker at the stern of a boat or a storeroom between decks of a ship
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Also called: lazar house, pesthouse. (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
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Etymology
Origin of lazaretto
1540–50; < Upper Italian ( Venetian ) lazareto, blend of lazzaro lazar and Nazareto popular name of a hospital maintained in Venice by the Church of Santa Maria di Nazaret
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In the Philadelphia area, a gracious lazaretto in the Georgian style was inaugurated beside the Delaware River six years after an outburst of yellow fever in 1793 claimed the life of one in 10 residents.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
It’s also likely that if you’ve never heard of Bruce Springsteen — in whatever dark-ops lazaretto you might’ve been held captive in for four decades — you might not pick up this book at all.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
A lazaretto is a medical quarantine, traditionally occupied by contagious sea dogs returned from voyage.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2014
A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ground appropriated for the purposes of a lazaretto has a frontage on the bay of about fourteen hundred feet, and extends back twelve hundred feet.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
Calling themselves “quarantine tourists,” they trace the footsteps of “philanthropist, vegetarian, and prison-reform advocate” John Howard, who, in 1785, set out to inspect the condition of people placed in Mediterranean lazarettos, or quarantine hospitals.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
A tiny island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy, Santa Maria di Nazareth, is the site of one of the first lazarettos.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
Now all the bathing resorts are deserted,—because the lazarettos infect the bay with refuse, and because the clothing of the sick is washed in the Roxelane.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Have you never heard of gallant British soldiers storming batteries, of doctors passing nights in plague wards of lazarettos, and other instances of martyrdom?
From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
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