Meaning of lazaret | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of lazaretto.
   historical
2. A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
   historical
3. A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
   also, figuratively, historical
4. A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.

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Examples

“But the civilising was so complete⟳ that the survivors of the original inhabitants numbered seven, of whom two were dying of consumption in the Native Compound, three confined in the Native Lazaret with leprosy, the rest⟳, a man and a woman, living in a gunyah at the remote end⟳ of Devilfish Bay, subsisting on what food they could get⟳ from the bush and the sea and what they could buy⟳ with the pennies the man earned by doing odd jobs and the woman by prostitution.”

“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.”

“The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function”

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