lazaretto
- noun
- /ˌlæzəˈrɛtoʊ/
- Archaic
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lazareto
- The main city hospital, the Sant'Antonio, also served as a lazaretto to isolate the plague patients.
Examples
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The first lazaretto (plague hospital/infirmary) was set up in 1423 in Venice.
Academic text (2013) -
The lazaretto reflected the development of epidemiology and increasing administrative skills in Renaissance society.
Academic text (2013) -
This is the great Lazaretto on Faroe Island.
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"He stinks of his friends at the lazaretto," his companion offers.
Fiction book (2000) -
Persons suspected of having plague were isolated at a center (tancat) (Instruction XVIII), whereas plague patients were housed at a lazaretto (Instructions XXXI).
Academic text (2013) -
From childhood, he has had a horror of lepers, and he has always avoided the lazaretto at the foot of Mount Subasio, where they sometimes congregate in the road, rattling their wooden bells and calling out for alms.
Fiction book (2000) -
During the outbreak, the government established a lazaretto to prevent the spread of the infection among the population.
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The first lazaretto in the region was built to treat those suffering from contagious diseases.
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To protect the citizens, they quarantined the sick in a lazaretto on the outskirts of the city.
Synonyms
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A hospital that treats people with leprosy and keeps them separate from others
A place where sick people are kept to stop a disease from spreading
A hospital where people with contagious diseases are kept separate
A hospital where people with leprosy lived and got care in the past
A place where people with contagious diseases are kept and cared for
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lazaretto comes from the name Lazarus, after an island hospital that cared for sick people and was used to keep disease away. That's why a lazaretto means a hospital for 'quarantine' or a place to isolate people with infectious disease.