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lazaret

noun
/ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto; see further at lazaretto. Doublet of lazaretto.

  1. derived from lazzareto
  2. borrowed from lazaret

Definitions

  1. Synonym of lazaretto.

    • I woke the next morning in a lazaret, a long, high-ceilinged room where we, the sick, the injured, lay upon narrow beds.
    • The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts of the city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers.

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