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Synonyms for lazaretto

Grammar : Noun
Spell : laz-uh-ret-oh
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlæz əˈrɛt oʊ

Définition of lazaretto

Origin :
  • "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 proper name Lazarus. Meaning "building set apart for quarantine" is c.1600 in English. The word in Italian was perhaps influenced by the name of another hospital in Venice, that associated with the church of Santa Maria di Nazaret.
  • As in quarantine : noun isolation
Example sentences :
  • I'm a poor Englishman who has made his escape from the Lazaretto.
  • Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
  • I pulled up the harbor, and landed the other side of the Lazaretto.
  • Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic
  • When I visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave.
  • Extract from : « Father Damien » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • At Venice he is conducted to the lazaretto, to undergo the quarantine.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 » by Various
  • The regulations to be observed in the lazaretto are given on the following page.
  • Extract from : « The Overland Guide-book » by James Barber
  • No convalescent inmate had yet appeared upon the terrace of the lazaretto.
  • Extract from : « Mathieu Ropars: et cetera » by William Young
  • In 1878 there were 16 patients in the lazaretto—6 men and 10 women.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I » by Various
  • The lazaretto is the most perfect of any arrangement of the kind in Europe.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Malta » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • Farther on is Meljina, with a lazaretto of the seventeenth century.
  • Extract from : « The Shores of the Adriatic » by F. Hamilton Jackson
  • A steward with the stock of life-belts from the lazaretto touched the captain's arm.
  • Extract from : « Denis Dent » by Ernest W. Hornung

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