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Lazaret   Listen
noun
Lazaretto, Lazaret  n.  
1.
A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
2.
(Naut.) A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.





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"Lazaret" Quotes from Famous Books



... This landscape of abomination changes. Gilles now sees on the trunks frightful cancers and horrible wens. He observes exostoses and ulcers, membranous sores, tubercular chancres, atrocious caries. It is an arboreal lazaret, a venereal clinic. ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans


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