lazaret
- noun
- /ˈlæzəˌrɛt/
- Archaic
:
lazareto
- Many patients were sent to the lazaret to prevent the spread of leprosy in the community.
Examples
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Lazaret Island, where they ship the fever victims.
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'Course, there's talk of shipping those who have got it off to Lazaret Island where the lepers are.
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The lazaret at last was empty of all but smoke.
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"Open the door to the lazaret."
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But why, he wondered, were they not stored forward in the lazaret?
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Lazaret Island where the lepers are?
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That's today's crop for Lazaret Island.
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Why, it ain't civilized to condemn Christian people to Lazaret Island!
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The government established a new lazaret to treat patients with infectious diseases.
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During the outbreak, the city converted a hospital into a lazaret for those infected.
Synonyms
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A hospital that treats people with leprosy and keeps them separate from others
A hospital that keeps people with contagious diseases away from others
A hospital where people with leprosy lived and got care in the past
A place where sick people are kept to stop a disease from spreading
A place where people with contagious diseases are kept and cared for
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lazaret comes from the old Italian lazzaretto, named after the biblical figure Lazarus, who was long thought to be connected with leprosy. A helpful way to remember it is that a lazaret was a place to keep people with contagious disease 'in isolation', so the name came to mean a quarantine hospital.