Crossword clues for lazaret
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 affected with contagious diseases.
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(Naut.)
Note: (Pronounced by seamen l[a^]z`[.a]*r[=e]t") A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A lazaretto. 2 (context nautical English) A lazaretto.
WordNet
n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) [syn: lazaretto, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse]
Wikipedia
Lazaret is a district in Sibiu, Romania. It is located in the eastern part of the city.
Usage examples of "lazaret".
Now I had the same experience in reverse: I slept and found in sleep that the shadowy lazaret with its silent figures and moving lamps had been no more than a hallucination of the day.
My fever, of which I had hardly been conscious when I came to the lazaret, and which had seemed to subside on the day previous, returned.
I said I would like to introduce him to the acquaintances I had made in this part of the lazaret and asked if he now recalled his name.
Ever since we had reached the lazaret, I had known it must come soon, but I had hoped to delay it until I was ready to depart.
I had been beneath that wide canvas roof, it had seemed the whole of the lazaret to me.
I was about to start back to the lazaret tent from which I had come when I became aware of a motionless figure watching me from the shadows of another tent some distance off.
The old moon had died while I lay in the lazaret, and the new would not be born for several days.
I ate some of the food I had carried from the lazaret and made my way down the farther side of the high hill of which the cliff had formed a part.
I dreamed that I was in lazaret in the cool shade of palm trees, with the sound of running water outside its white canvas walls.
They had dug themselves out and carried Pandaras to the lazaret, but by the time one of the chirurgeons had seen him the cord around his wrist had tightened so much that it had almost disappeared into his flesh.
When he was at last able to sit up and take notice of his surroundings, in the late afternoon of the sixth or seventh day of his confinement, he saw that this part of the lazaret was empty except for himself and a heavily bandaged man three cots over in the same row.
Those officers captured with the lazaret had already been killed, but the guards would sometimes make the prisoners line up, pluck someone from the ranks at random, and execute him.
Pandaras asked Tibor why he had not been executed when the lazaret had been captured.
In the first days after the lazaret was captured, little master, before you woke from your coma, the pedagogues spent a great deal of time talking with me.
Hotel Arapahoe, now a catch-as-catch-can lazaret and bagnio one minute from Times Square.