lazaretto

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

You don't know, perhaps, if your young Herr has got a horse with a wind-gall, he might like to buy the old thing from Kurz, for the completeness of his lazaretto.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter

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 passed days in pest-houses and lazarettos, and finally laid down his life in the blessed work of charity at Cherson in the Crimea.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

Have you never heard of gallant British soldiers storming batteries, of doctors passing nights in plague wards of lazarettos, and other instances of martyrdom?

From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray