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lazaret

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/Part of speech nounSorted aaelrtzStarts with LEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

Word origin

Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto; see further at lazaretto. Doublet of lazaretto.

Used in a sentence

  • I woke the next morning in a lazaret, a long, high-ceilinged room where we, the sick, the injured, lay upon narrow beds.
  • The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts of the city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers.
  • The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function

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