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lazaretto

[laz-uh-ret-oh] / ˌlæz əˈrɛt oʊ /


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In the Philadelphia area, a gracious lazaretto in the Georgian style was inaugurated beside the Delaware River six years after an outburst of yellow fever in 1793 claimed the life of one in 10 residents.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

It’s also likely that if you’ve never heard of Bruce Springsteen — in whatever dark-ops lazaretto you might’ve been held captive in for four decades — you might not pick up this book at all.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016

A lazaretto is a medical quarantine, traditionally occupied by contagious sea dogs returned from voyage.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2014

A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto.

From Time Magazine Archive

No wonder the sick room and the lazaretto have so often been a refuge from the tossings of intellectual doubt—a place of repose for the worn and wounded spirit.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

Calling themselves “quarantine tourists,” they trace the footsteps of “philanthropist, vegetarian, and prison-reform advocate” John Howard, who, in 1785, set out to inspect the condition of people placed in Mediterranean lazarettos, or quarantine hospitals.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021

It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

A tiny island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy, Santa Maria di Nazareth, is the site of one of the first lazarettos.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

He wished to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow-creatures to a still greater extent; so he formed the plan of visiting the hospitals and lazarettos set apart for contagious diseases in various countries.

From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson

As regards lazarettos, he found, as he had found with regard to prisons and hospitals, that their condition depended in a great degree on the amount of care taken by the ruler of the city.

From The Red Book of Heroes by Arthur Wallis Mills


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