Lazaretto Synonyms

lăzə-rĕtō
Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lazaret
  2. lazarette
  3. lazar-house
  4. pesthouse
A small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. glory-hole

Lazaretto Sentence Examples

  • There is also in the city an immense lazaretto for lepers.

  • Mahon is one of the principal quarantine stations of Spain; the lazaretto, erected between 1798 and 1803, stands on a long tongue of land, separated from La Mola by the inlet of Cala Taulera.

  • After six months' stay in Algiers he once again, on the 21st of June 1809, set sail for Marseilles, where he had to undergo a monotonous and inhospitable quarantine in the lazaretto, before his difficulties were over.