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lazaret|læzəˈrɛt|
Also 7 lazarett, 8–9 lazarette, lazzaret.
[a. F. lazaret, ad. It. lazzaretto, now lazzeretto: see next.]
1. = lazaretto 1.
1611Cotgr., Lazaret, a Lazaret, or Spittle for Lazers. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 135/2 The Grand Visier..has given order for..raising a Battery near the Lazaret. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 16 A large Lazarett, as the Italians call a Pest-house. 1783Hamilton in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 201 The Lazaret has some cracks in it. 1826Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2) 128 A lazaret or hospital for the reception of sick. 1888Daily News 29 Nov. 4/8 The lazarets where the sick..so often find their welcome passport to the grave.
transf. and fig.a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 76 In the great Portico there Night and Day, A Lazaret of wounded Spirits lay. 1845Sir H. Taylor I. Comnenus v. vii. Wks. 1864 II. 235 Man, for lack of manliness, is made A lazaret for the mind's maladies.
2. = lazaretto 2.
1721Act Parl. in Lond. Gaz. No. 5927/5 Such Ship, House, Lazaret, or other Place. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 162 The same penalty also attends persons escaping from the lazarets, or places wherein quarentine is to be performed. 1800Act 39 & 40 Geo. III, c. 80 (title) An Act for erecting a Lazaret on Chetney Hill, in the County of Kent, and for reducing into one Act the Laws relating to Quarantine. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 147 Only one box..was left in the lazarette. 1896Daily News 23 July 5/4 After purging five days' quarantine in a lazaret.
fig.1819Byron Juan ii. ccxxv, The liver is the lazaret of bile.
3. = lazaretto 3.
1892Stevenson & L. Osborne Wrecker xi. 185 From the cabin the cook was storing tins into the lazarette. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 185 He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin. |