Lazaretto

Quick meaning: Lazaretto is a noun meaning A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

Meaning

A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
2. A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.

Example Sentences

Miss Rossignol lived in the lazaretto / For Roman Catholic crones; she had white skin, / And underneath it, fine, old-fashioned bones; […]

The Lazaretto is a vaſt Building, carrying in compaſs a thouſand and eight hundred yards. It ſtands near the Tovvn VValls, yet out of the Tovvn, and is to receive into it thoſe that are ſick of the Plague.

It is planted with ſhady trees; and in the center is a building, vvhich ſerves for a hoſpital, or lazaretto, for perſons afflicted vvith the leproſy, or other incurable diſeaſes, vvho are ſent thither from Batavia.

They are in their Method of Devotion, pious and charitable, their ſtately Temples, and Monaſteries demonſtrat the one, and their Lazarettos, or Houſes for the Poor do verify the other, ſpecially that of Monte de pietà, an Hoſpital of 60000.

Word Forms

• lazarettos
• lazarettoes
• lazaretti
• lazzaretto

Synonyms for lazaretto

Depending on context, synonyms include lazaret, pesthouse, lazarette.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lazaret, pesthouse, lazarette, lazzaretto, lazarhouse, quarantine.

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