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Definition of Lazarettes
1. lazarette [n] - See also: lazarette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazarettes
Literary usage of Lazarettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Experiences of the War Between France and Germany by Archibald Forbes (1871)
"had nearly disappeared, and one hardly ever now heard of dysentery. Rheumatism and
bronchitis steadily sent a proportion to the lazarettes, but in no great ..."
2. Letters on International Relations Before and During the War of 1870 by Karl] [Abel (1871)
"The German doctors who, after the battle of 'Weissenburg, in the lazarettes under
the superintendence of the Physicians-General Wilms and Boger, ..."
3. Austria: Its Literary, Scientific, and Medical Institutions. With Notes Upon by William Robert Wilde (1843)
"The Trieste division has, beside this central magistrate, 43 deputies and 2
lazarettes. The Venetian states have 1 marine magistrate at Venice, ..."
4. The Bookman (1903)
"A year in the battlefields and lazarettes of 1870—a superb bit of word-painting
of the horrors of war stripped of the glory thrown about it by newspaper ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"... the National Aid Society incurred a certain amount of odium very unjustly, by
refusing to supply medicaments to reserve lazarettes, where those who were ..."
6. A Short History of Germany by Ernest Flagg Henderson (1902)
"One-fifth of the whole German army was in the lazarettes from maladies caused by
the rains, by the pestilential vapors from the uncovered bodies, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"... the title of which is on lazarettes end Quarantines. The Doctor's opinion on
the very defective mode of performing quarantine in England, ..."
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