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Lazaret

noun
1.
Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).  Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse.






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"Lazaret" Quotes from Famous Books



... This landscape of abomination changes. Gilles now sees on the trunks frightful cancers and horrible wens. He observes exostoses and ulcers, membranous sores, tubercular chancres, atrocious caries. It is an arboreal lazaret, a venereal clinic. ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... led the way on to the poop, opened the companion doors and slide, and went below. Kettle followed. There was a cabin with state rooms off it, littered, but dry. Strake went down on his knees beneath the table, searching for something. "Lazaret hatch ought to be down here," he explained. "I want to see in there. ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne



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