lazaretto
- n hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
- n a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
- A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto.
- They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left .