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lazaretto|læzəˈrɛtəʊ|
Also 7 lazzareto, lazaretta, 8 lazeretto, lazareta, 9 lazzaretto.
[ad. It. lazzareto (Florio), now lazzeretto, f. lazzaro lazar.]
1. A house for the reception of the diseased poor, esp. lepers; a hospital, pest-house. (Chiefly used with reference to foreign countries.)
1549Thomas Hist. Italie 83 a, For the plague there is a house..two miles from Venice, called the Lazaretto. 1609W. Biddulph in T. Lavender Trav. cert. Englishmen 6 The Lazaretta [at Zante], which is a place like vnto the pest house in More-fields. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 77 The Lazaretto..remains a standing monument of his piety. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 31 Bare as the walls of a poor house or lazaretto. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §1. 722 His longing..led him to examine the lazarettos of Europe and the East.
2. A building, sometimes a ship, set apart for the performance of quarantine.
1605B. Jonson Fox iv. i. (1607) I. 2 b, Where they vse To lie out forty, fifty dayes, sometimes, About the Lazaretto, for their triall. 1615G. Sandys Trav. (1621) 6 When they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto. Ibid. 227 To be conueyed by him vnto the Lazaretta, there to remaine for thirtie or fortie dayes before I could be admitted into the Citie. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. (1818) II. 163 Conveyed to a lazaretto by an order of quarantine. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. xxiv. (1865) 210 We could not shake hands; for that would have sent him to the lazaretto for twenty-four hours, as a plague-stricken person.
3. Naut. ‘A place parted off at the fore part of the 'tween decks, in some merchantmen, for stowing provisions and stores in’ (Adm. Smyth 1867).
1711in W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 161. 1783 Colebrooke Let. in Life (1873) 7 The Duke of Athol, Indiaman, took fire by neglect of the steward in drawing off rum in the lazareta. 1799in Naval Chron. I. 303 The fire must be in the lazaretto below. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 129. |