lazaretton.
/ˌlazəˈrɛtəʊ/, U.S. /ˌlæzəˈrɛdoʊ/ 1. A house for the reception of the diseased poor, esp. lepers; a hospital, pest-house. (Chiefly used with reference to foreign countries.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > leper-house or lazaretto
mesel house?a1400
mesel-cote1402
malantary?a1425
maladerie1461
lazar-cote1470
lazar-house1530
lazaretto1549
lazarus-house1560
leper house1574
pest-house1594
lazaret1611
leprosery1792
leper asylum1818
leprosy1834
leprosarium1869
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 83 For the plague, there is an house..two miles from Venice, called the Lazaretto.
1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 6 The Lazaretta [at Zante], which is a place like vnto the pest house in More-fields.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 77 The Lazaretto..remains a standing monument of his piety.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 31 Bare as the walls of a poor-house or a lazaretto.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People 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.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place of quarantine
lazaretto1607
lazaret1721
quarantine1806
the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine > place of
lazaretto1607
lazaret1721
quarantine1806
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. i. sig. I2v Where they vse To lie out forty, fifty dayes, sometimes, About the Lazaretto, for their triall. View more context for this quotation
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey (1621) 6 When they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey (1621) 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.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) II. 163 Conveyed to a lazaretto by an order of quarantine.
1853 C. C. Felton Familiar Lett. (1865) xxiv. 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. Nautical. ‘A place parted off at the fore part of the 'tween decks, in some merchantmen, for stowing provisions and stores in’ (Adm. Smyth 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment
lazaretto1711
locker room1857
lazaret1892
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 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.
1799 in Naval Chron. 1 303 The fire must be in the lazaretto below.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 129.
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