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.
    • 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
      Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast.
    • 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
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