sanitary cordon

American  

noun

1. cordon sanitaire.

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Example Sentences

After Guatemala’s government erected the first sanitary cordon around the impoverished municipality of Patzun on April 5 to contain the virus, hundreds of cut-off residents began putting up rags and white cloths in a call for help.

From Reuters

“Guests will be accompanied to their flights and transfers, organised by the company, through a sanitary cordon of isolation,” Costa Cruises said.

From Reuters

Probably no sanitary cordon nor any quarantine will invariably and completely exclude cholera, since it is transmissible by living men and by water and by fomites of various descriptions, and, worst of all, by men who neither exhibit its characteristic symptoms nor are conscious of the poison which they conceal and disseminate.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes there’s no substitute for what we call a sanitary cordon.”

From New York Times

The word is frequently used in a transferred sense of a line of posts or stations to guard an enclosed area from unauthorized passage, e.g. a military or police cordon, and especially a sanitary cordon, a line of posts to prevent communication from or with an area infected with disease.

From Project Gutenberg