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Lazarette
lazarette
lazarette
See also: Lazarette
English
Noun
lazarette (plural lazarettes)
- Obsolete spelling of lazaret
- 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Oxford University Press, 1907, Letter XIII, p. 119,
- Without the harbour, is a lazarette, where persons coming from infected places, are obliged to perform quarantine.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 586:
- There were fish in the lazarettes and rope lockers, fish spilled out the portholes and came flapping out of charts as they were unrolled on the chart table
- 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Oxford University Press, 1907, Letter XIII, p. 119,