lazaretto
Americannoun
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lazarettos
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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
No wonder the sick room and the lazaretto have so often been a refuge from the tossings of intellectual doubt—a place of repose for the worn and wounded spirit.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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
It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 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
A declaration upon oath, weakened in importance by its too frequent administration at custom-houses, lazarettos, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
He left home in July, 1789, and it is surprising that for six months he literally lived in the poisonous atmosphere of the pest-houses, pest-ships, and lazarettos of Europe, and escaped contagion.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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