lazaret
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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]