lazaretto
Americannoun
plural
lazarettos-
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.
noun
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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
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
Example Sentences
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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
I afterward passed a month with him in the lazaretto at Malta, and I trust he will not consider me presuming when I say that our acquaintance ripened into friendship.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
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