lazaretto
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The keeper, on his part, held aloof from habitual intercourse with the infirmary-men and the doctors of the lazaretto.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
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
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
It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
He left home in July, 1789, and it is surprising that for six months he literally lived in the poisonous atmosphere of the pest-houses, pest-ships, and lazarettos of Europe, and escaped contagion.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Now all the bathing resorts are deserted,—because the lazarettos infect the bay with refuse, and because the clothing of the sick is washed in the Roxelane.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
