English Dictionary

lazaretto

/ˌlæzəˈɹɛtəʊ/

noun

A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

The lazaretto was used as a quarantine station for incoming ships.

意味（1）

A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

For the plague, there is an houſe of many lodgeingꝭ [lodgeinges], two miles from Venice, called the Lazaretta, vnto the which all they of that houſe, wherin one hath been infected of the plague, are incontinẽtly ſent, and a lodgeyng ſufficiente appoincted for theim till the infection ceaſſe, that they may retourne.

意味（2）

(also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.

[H]ovv t'enquire, and be reſolu'd, / By preſent demonſtration, vvhether a ſhip, / Nevvly arriued from Soria, or from / Any ſuſpected part of all the leuant, / Be guilty of the plague: And, vvhere they vſe, / To lie out fortie, fifty daies, ſometimes, / About the Lazaretto, for their triall; […]

意味（3）

(by extension, nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.

After a large quantity of proviſions had been hoiſted up to get out the powder, the ſmoke was ſtill found to aſcend from below; this circumſtance, […] convinced them that the fire muſt be in the lazaretto below, where ſome purſers beds were now recollected to have been very improperly ſtowed; […] no doubt was entertained that theſe beds had got wet and had taken fire.