lazarette

See also: Lazarette

English

Noun

lazarette (plural lazarettes)

1. Obsolete spelling of lazaret
   • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy‎^[1], Oxford University Press, published 1907, Letter XIII, p. 119:

     Without the harbour, is a lazarette, where persons coming from infected places, are obliged to perform quarantine.

   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

     He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin and began hauling out the big mainsail.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 586:

     There were fish in the lazarettes and rope lockers, fish spilled out the portholes and came flapping out of charts as they were unrolled on the chart table