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A small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
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lazaretto
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) [syn: lazaret , lazarette , lazar house , pesthouse ] a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship [syn: glory hole ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"house for reception of lepers and diseased poor persons," 1540s, from Italian lazareto "place set aside for performance of quarantine" (especially that of Venice, which received many ships from plague-infested districts in the East), from the Biblical ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A medical facility specializing in the care for contagious patients. 2 A ship or building used for quarantine. 3 (context nautical English) An area on some merchant ships where provisions are stored.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lazaretto or lazaret (from ) is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings. In some lazarets, postal items were also disinfected, usually by fumigation . This practice ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lazaret \Laz`a*ret"\ (l[a^]z`[.a]*r[e^]t"), Lazaretto \Laz`a*ret"to\ (l[a^]z`[.a]*r[e^]t"t[-o]), n. [F. lazaret, or It. lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar .] A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those ...
Usage examples of lazaretto.
Thinking of poor Marina who would have to remain in the lazaretto before she could reappear on the stage at Otranto, I told Fastidio to get the contract ready, as I wanted to go away immediately.
Battipaglia, in his rage, called Marina a harlot, and said that she had arranged beforehand with Fastidio to violate the rules of the lazaretto in order to compel me to choose their troupe.
Marina being in the service of Fastidio, the captain compelled him to confine her to the lazaretto, where she would have to perform quarantine at his expense.
I only went to the parlour of the lazaretto, where, placed behind a grating, you can speak to any person who calls, and who must stand behind another grating placed opposite, at a distance of six feet.
Marina being in the service of Fastidio, the captain compelled him to confine her to the lazaretto, where she would have to perform quarantine at his expense.
He returned to Venice in 1778 with the intention of ending his days there, far from affairs of state, but he died in the lazaretto eight days before the completion of his quarantine.
This was water that he and his coxswain and at least four of his bargemen knew as well as Spithead or Hamoaze and they sailed up with a kind of offhand cunning, shaving past the Lazaretto, catching the back-eddy by Cuckold's Reach (a spacious stretch in these warm latitudes), and slipping through the hospital channel, censuring all changes that had been made since their time.