lazarette

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word lazarette. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word lazarette, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say lazarette in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word lazarette you have here. The definition of the word lazarette will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oflazarette, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: Lazarette

English

Noun

lazarette (plural lazarettes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of lazaret.
    • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy‎, 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
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia