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Definition of Lazarette
1. Noun. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).
Definition of Lazarette
1. Noun. (obsolete spelling of lazaret) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lazarette
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazarette
Literary usage of Lazarette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. When the Prussians Came to Poland: The Experiences of an American Woman by Laura Blackwell de Gozdawa Turczynowicz (1916)
"On the 28th day of August—my birthday—a Russian Sister came to me to see if we
could help their hospital—a field lazarette, with about one hundred and fifty ..."
2. On the Right of the British Line by Gilbert Nobbs (1917)
"CHAPTER XXIV WARD 43, RESERVE lazarette 5, HANOVER OCCUPANTS OF THE WARD.
CHIVALRY OP THE AIR "DEFORE the war Reserve lazarette 5 at Hanover was a military ..."
3. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"I went down in the lazarette. You did go down in the lazarette ?—Yes. ... Did you
go to the lazarette ?—I did ; I imagine from what you allude to it is the ..."
4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1894)
"The lazarette measured about eighteen inches on the inside, and was surrounded
by an iron rim. It was provided with an iron grating which set down into the ..."
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