laz·a·ret

, lazaretto (laz'ă-ret, -ret'ō), Obsolete term for:

1. A hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases.

2. A place of detention for people in quarantine.

[It. lazzaretto, fr. lazzaro, a leper]

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lazaretto

(lăz′ə-rĕt′ō) also

lazaret

lazarette

(-rĕt′)

n. pl. lazaret·tos also laza·rets or laza·rettes

1. A hospital treating contagious diseases.

2. A building or ship used as a quarantine station.

3. often lazarette A storage space below deck or between decks on a ship or boat.

lazaretto

(1) Leprosarium.
(2) A hospital for infectious disease(s).
(3) A quarantine site.

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Comme un virus, Flibotte circule partout en depit des frontieres sociales, informatiques et virales; il a meme reussi a s'evader de Lazarette,puis a se faire extirper de la nuque la puce qui aurait permis de le localiser.

Gestion des corps, desir et contagion dans Le testament du couturier

Details include a sliding chart table (it slides aft when not in use to free settee space), a huge bathroom with separate shower stall and access through the shower wall to the lazarette.

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Another very special and practical feature, also operated by handheld remote, are aft steps which are cleverly recessed beneath the lazarette lid.

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You can have two double cabins (with a big lazarette and one head) or three (with one head or two).

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With two, the galley extends well aft; this arrangement makes room for a big lazarette in the cockpit.

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Underfoot the optional teak cladding hides a central main hatch giving access to the rudder shaft for emergency steering while on each quarter are deep lazarettes.

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The aft section contains two large lazarettes, including a generator, and behind them a dinghy garage.

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