sanitary cordon

American  

noun

1. cordon sanitaire.

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Example Sentences

It is something in the very atmosphere, which no sanitary cordon can limit.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

In August, 1821, the presence of yellow fever in Spain was made the occasion for establishing a body of troops, professing to act as a sanitary cordon, upon the frontier.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

And when people whom you know are in trial, do not draw a sanitary cordon round them—as though they had the plague—that you cross only with precautions which recall to them their sad lot.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise